Georgia Performance Standards – Grade 7

S7L3.  Students will recognize how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.

Explain the role of genes and chromosomes in the process of inheriting a specific trait.

7L4.  Students will examine the evolution of living organisms through inherited characteristics that promote survival of organisms and the survival of successive generations of their offspring.

Explain that physical characteristics of organisms have changed over successive generations (e.g. Darwin’s finches and peppered moths of Manchester).

Georgia Performance Standards – Grades 9-12

SB2.  Students will analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.