NAME
DATE
PERIOD
7.
Describe the difference between selective breeding and
natural selection?
8.
Describe the following selective pressures:
EVIDENCE COLLECTION: EXPLAINING EVOLUTION
Homework: Read the essay "Evolution by Natural Selection" p.
113 and answer the following questions:
1.
What is meant by variation within species (give some
examples)?
Competition:
2.
Explain how farmers have used breeding tactics to
emphasize or increase certain characteristics:
Predation:
9.
3.
What do all the vegetables in the picture on p.114 have in
common? How are they different?
4.
Define species:
5.
Using Figure E2.13- Ernst Mayr’s points and the reading:
Fill in the graphic organizer on the back of this page.
6.
What are adaptations? Give an example from the essay:
Do organisms acquire these characteristics to help them
survive? Explain.
10. Relate natural selection to Darwin's basic idea- descent by
modification:
Question #4 Biological Evolution Graphic Organizer (LS3A)
The Logic of the Theory of Natural Selection:
Fact 1:
Inference 1:
Fact 2:
Fact 3:
Fact 4:
Inference 2:
Fact 5:
Inference 3: