The group adds that the draft curriculum does not mention reproduction again until the end of primary school when the guidance for teaching 10 and 11-year-olds says "they should find out about different types of reproduction, including sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, and sexual reproduction in animals".

BBC: Curriculum plan 'waters down sex education' experts warn

However, one young researcher, who investigated the effects of light on asexual reproduction of planaria (flatworms), described what it was like to learn during the course of his experimentation that his hypothesis was wrong.

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