Georgia Performance Standards for the Bio-Bus Biotechnology Module

Seventh Grade

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

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

c. Recognize that selective breeding can produce plants or animals with desired traits.

S7L5. 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.

a. Explain how physical characteristics of organisms have changed over successive

generations (e.g. Darwin’s finches and peppered moths of Manchester).

b. Describe ways in which species on earth have evolved due to natural selection.

c. Explain how the fossil record found in sedimentary rock provides evidence for the long

history of changing life forms.