Biology
Unit 7 Ch. 13, 14, 15, 16
Evolution
CHAPTER 13:
“How Populations Evolve“ Charles Darwin & Alfred Russell Wallace
day 1:
Go over tests
DUE: Notes: 13.1-6
Lecture: Darwin, natural selection, observing n.s., fossils, Evidence for Evolution, homologies.
Video: Galapagos Video with Alan Alda
day 2:
DUE: Notes: 13.7,8
Activity: “Skull Lab” Allow 30 minutes
Sean Carroll narrates human evolution.
Discusses Lucy, Ardi & bipedalism and small brains, tools.
FOSSILS & COMPARATIVE ANATOMY
day 3:
DUE: Notes: 13.11-17
Lecture: mechanisms of microevolution (video 1): small population size (a.k.a. genetic drift), nonrandom mating
(a.k.a. sexual selection), mutation, gene flow, natural selection (video 2)
More topics: antibiotic resistance, “perfect” organisms (video 3)
1.) BosemanBiology: Mech.of Evol. 7:40min.
2.) Animation: Natural Selection “Evolution Lab”: http://biologyinmotion.com/evol/index.html (interactive)
3.) Natural selection can not produce “perfect” organisms Evol: Laryngeal Nerve in Giraffes (4:04 min)
day 4:
Activity: “Biochemical Evidence for Evolution” Allow 15 min. CHROMOSOMES & AMINO ACIDS
1.) Comparison of Primate Chromosome #2 (4:23 min)
CHAPTER 14:
day 5:
CHAPTER 15:
day 6:
“The Origin of Species”
DUE: Notes: 14.1-6,10,11
Lecture: reproductive barriers, geographic isolation, polyploidy, habitat differentiation, sexual selection, adaptive
radiation.
“Tracing Evolutionary History“
DUE: Notes: p.293, 15.1-5, 7, 9-17 + online activities: 15.4,6,11,12,19.
Lecture: Early earth, Urey-Miller experiment, first cells, fossils, Macroevolution: continental drift, mass extinctions
Video: “Origins” 58 min. and Permian Extinction 15 min.
CHAPTER 16:
“The Origin and Evolution of Microbial Life: Prokaryotes and Protists“
day 7:
DUE: p. 319 and 16.2-4,6,8-12, 21
Lecture: Stromatolites, Bacteria and Archaea, secondary
endosymbiosis, eukaryotic evolution, multicellularity.
Video: “Artificial Life”: NOVA Science Now 15 min.
TED Talks: Protocells
day 8:
Ch. 13-16 Test
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Biology
Unit 9 Evolution
Learning Targets
1.
History of Life
a. I can explain how the process of science is used to support biogenesis and disprove spontaneous generation.
b. I can explain how the process of science is used to support that the building blocks of life could be produced under
the conditions of the early earth.
Vocabulary: biogenesis, spontaneous generation
2.
Earth’s History and The First Life Forms
a. I can outline the modern scientific understanding of the formation of Earth.
b. I can explain the evidence used to infer that the first cells were prokaryotic, anaerobic, and heterotrophic.
c. I can compare the two types of autotrophy used by early cells.
d. I can explain how eukaryotes evolved.
Vocabulary: chemosynthesis, photosynthesis
3.
History of Evolutionary Thought
a. I can explain Charles Darwin’s contributions to science.
b. I can describe what natural selection is and how natural selection changes what a population looks like over time.
c. I can explain which factors are needed in order for natural selection to work.
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struggle to survive
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differential reproduction
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over population
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genetic variation
Vocabulary: natural selection, differential reproduction, fitness
4.
Lines of Evidence for Evolution
a. I can use the fossil record to infer the history and relatedness of life.
b. I can explain how comparative anatomy provides evidence of shared ancestry.
c. I can explain how embryology and development provides evidence.
d. I can explain how the lines of evidence are used to determine relatedness. (phylogenetic tree/cladogram)
e. I can explain how all organisms, including humans, are continuing to evolve today.
Vocabulary: homologous structures, (analogous structures), half-life, embryology,
vestigial structures, absolute age/relative age, cladogram/cladistics, phylogenetic tree
5.
Evolution in Action
a. I can identify the mechanism of evolution involved in a written scenario.
Vocabulary: convergent, divergent, artificial selection, coevolution; Mechanisms: small populations:
(genetic drift: founder effect and bottleneck), nonrandom mating, mutation, gene flow, (natural selection).
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”ORIGINS”
STUDY GUIDE
Using each of the subcategories, explain the following major events in the history of the early Earth.
Be sure to mention how they contributed to the evolution of life on Earth.
The Major Bombardment
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space matter?
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planet temperature?
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organic compounds
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water
The Iron Catastrophe
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molten Earth stratifies into…
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Earth’s crust is rich in…
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Core remains…
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Creates…
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Solar wind?
Creation of the moon
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Planetesimal the size of Mars…
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Released crust creates…
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Earth’s axis…
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creates….
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speed of Earth’s rotation…
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stabilizes Earth’s rotation reducing…
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Moon’s gravitational pull creates…
First organic compounds
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Important as ….
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Urey-Miller concluded that…
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Major Bombardment…
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Deep sea thermal vents…
Stromatolites
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Fossil evidence of first…
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This process begins…
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Process adds _____________ to atmosphere
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Causes oxidation of….
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As evidenced by….
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Binding poisonous oxygen first evolutionary step toward…
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Buildup of oxygen in upper atmosphere creates…
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which protects life from…
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allowed sea life to move to…
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