Reproduction, inheritance and disease: how characteristics are passed on and how organisms defend themselves.
These are the statements the Science Year 9 syllabus makes about Living World. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Asexual and sexual reproduction - Living World, Year 9.
Cell division: mitosis and meiosis - Living World, Year 9.
Inheritance and genetic crosses - Living World, Year 9.
DNA, genes and chromosomes - Living World, Year 9.
Dominant and recessive traits - Living World, Year 9.
Disease and the immune response - Living World, Year 9.
Vaccination and herd immunity - Living World, Year 9.
Ethics of genetic technologies - Living World, Year 9.
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Living World are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Science Year 9 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Living World opens the Science Year 9 course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Science Year 9 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.