Goal 3 Concept 7 Evolution
Essential Questions
1. What is the historical timeline of the theory of evolution by natural selection?
Define the important components that contributed to the theory.
2. Compare and contrast biogensis and spontaneous generation?
3. Describe the early atmosphere and the components that made it up. How did this
contribute to the earliest known organism?
4. Describe the evolution of eukaryotic organism. Of aerobic organisms?
5. What can be inferred from the fossil record?
6. What does it mean for fossils to share biochemical similarities? Anatomical
similarities?
7. How do variations contribute to material that influences natural selection?
8. What is the role of geographic isolation as it contributes to speciation?
9. How does the environment play a role in the selection of adaptations?
10. In specific species both and antibiotic and pesticide resistance genes have been
expressed. Give an example of these organisms and explain how this is a result of
natural selection.
11. How did the Galapagos finches provide evidence of natural selection?
12. Why is variation within a population necessary for natural selection to occur?
13. What evidence supports natural selection?
14. What are some circumstances that lead to speciation?
Vocab
Natural selection
Galapogos islands
Biogenesis
Spontaneous generation
Endosymbiosis
Relative dating
Absolute dating
Fossil record
Anatomical similarities
Biochemical similarities
Mimicry
Camouflage
Adaptation
Divergent evolution
Speciation
Geographic isolation
Reproductive isolation
Adaptive radiation
Fossil Record Review Sheet
Essential Questions
1. Compare and contrast biogensis and spontaneous generation.
2. Describe the early atmosphere and the components that made it up. How did this
contribute to the earliest known organism?
3. Describe the evolution of eukaryotic organism. Of aerobic organisms?
4. What can be inferred from the fossil record?
5. What does it mean for fossils to share biochemical similarities? Anatomical
similarities?
Vocab
Biogenesis
Spontaneous generation
Endosymbiosis
Relative dating
Absolute dating
Fossil record
Anatomical similarities
Biochemical similarities