Evolution Prezi’s and supplemental videos to study!
Prezi #1
http://prezi.com/l5byh38roeba/copy-of-ap-bio-evolution-1-introduction-to-evolution/
“Crash Course: Biology” Videos:
Natural Selection: Biology #14
Videos By Paul Anderson:
“Natural Selection”
“Examples of Natural Selection”
Questions to answer:
1. Explain how the work of the following folks contributed to the development of the Theory of Natural Selection”
a. Thomas Malthus
b. Georges Cuvier
c. Charles Lyell
2. Explain how evolution as it was conceived of by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck differs from Natural Selection.
3. Why were the Galapagos islands so formative for Charles Darwin’s thinking about evolution?
4. Draw a diagram illustrating the process of natural selection. Make sure your diagram includes all of the following
features:
a. Overproduction of offspring
b. variation among individuals
c. limited resources
d. competition
e. differential reproductive success (“fitness”)
f. adaptation
5. Explain how each of the following demonstrate Darwinian selection. For each, indicate the source of selection,
the criteria that determines fitness in the environment, and the end result of the selective process:
a. Artificial selection
b. Galapagos finches
c. The evolution of resistance in a population of insects or bacteria (you pick).
6. Explain the idea of common ancestry, and some of the supporting evidence.
7. How has modern science refined our understanding of evolution since Darwin/Wallace’s publication?
8. Being that it has never been disproven in more than 150 years since the publication of “On The Origin of
Species”, why is evolution still so controversial in parts of the United States?
Prezi 2
http://prezi.com/xlwjawwloy01/copy-of-ap-bio-evolution-2-evolutionary-forces/
Questions to answer:
1. Explain what the “modern synthesis” is. How is it different from Darwin’s original theory of evolution?
2. Why does evolution have to involve the change of the genetic makeup of a population over time?
3. Explain each of the following modes of evolution in a population. For each one, describe the cause of change in
the genetic makeup of a population and how the population evolves as a result of that change, and provide 2 “real
world” examples of the process in action:
a. Natural Selection
b. Genetic Drift
c. Gene Flow
d. Sexual Selection
4. Why is natural selection the only mode of evolution that causes a population to adapt to the environment over
time?
5. Why is evolution an emergent property of populations of organisms? Why are individuals unable to evolve?
6. Compare the effects of disruptive, directional and stabilizing selection on the genetic makeup of a population.
7. Why do traits have to be heritable for evolution to affect them?
Prezi #3
AP Biology Pre-Discussion Questions: Evolution, Lesson 3- Evidence of Evolution
Instructions:
Topic Presentation:
Supplementary Resources:
Videos By Paul Anderson:
Questions to answer:
Things you should make sure you understand:
Topic Presentation:
https://prezi.com/qh5lmnepfcrt/ap-bio-evolution-3-evidence-of-evolution/
Supplementary Resources:
Videos By Paul Anderson:
“Evidence for Evolution”
Questions to answer:
9. Briefly explain the nature of scientific inquiry. Include discussion of the role that evidence and falsifiability play
in the process. Is this a strength or a weakness of the scientific mode of thinking?
10. Explain how each of the following specifically support some aspect of evolutionary theory:
a. The fossil record (generally)
b. Transition fossils (specifically)
c. Homologous anatomical structures
d. Analogous anatomical structures
e. Vestigial anatomical structures
f. Comparative embryology
g. Molecular Homology (DNA and proteins)
h. Artificial Selection
i. Biogeography
j. Observed Evolution (pick one)
11. Explain the concept of teleology and why it is contradicted by evolutionary biology. Provide three examples of
evidence that directly contradict teleological thinking.
12. Explain why “Intelligent Design” is not a scientific hypothesis to explain the origin and evolution of life on Earth.
Provide two bits of evidence that contradict the idea of “Intelligent Design”.
Prezi #4
http://prezi.com/oxbluzwj5auc/copy-of-ap-bio-evolution-4-measuringevolution/
Supplementary Resources:
Videos By Paul Anderson:
“Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium”
Questions to answer:
Explain the meaning of the saying “individuals are selected, populations evolve.”
How is variation generated in a population? How is it maintained?
Explain the relationship between the terms alleles, genes and gene pool.
Explain the relationship between the terms genotype and phenotype.
Explain the relationship between the terms homozygous and heterozygous.
How is it possible that individuals with two different genotypes can have the same phenotype?
Explain how each of the following features of a (hypothetical) population in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium leads
to that population not evolving over time:
a. large population size
b. random mating
c. no immigration/emmigration
d. no net mutation rate
e. a constant environment
8. Answer questions A-C in the “Solving HW Problems” section of the presentation.
9. If no real population of organisms is in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, why is it a useful tool to study the effects of
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Prezi #5
http://prezi.com/cjcbeqrwpf9n/copy-of-ap-bio-evolution-5-speciation/
Supplementary Resources:
Videos By Paul Anderson:
“Speciation”
Questions to answer:
Explain what the “Biological Species” definition is. Describe its strengths and weaknesses.
Why does a biological species have to be reproductively isolated from other organisms?
Compare allopatric and sympatric speciation.
What is a ring species?
Briefly explain the following species barriers
a. habitat isolation
b. temporal isolation
c. behavioral isolation
d. mechanic isolation
e. gametic isolation
f. reduced hybrid viability
g. reduced hybrid fertility
h. hybrid breakdown
6. Explain why the creationist claim that speciation has never been observed is straight-up garbage.
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