BIOLOGY
UNIT #8 GOALS AND REQUIREMENTS
Evolution
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Summarize the experiments that were used to disprove spontaneous generation.
Describe Louis Pasteur’s experiment that gave the first evidence of biogenesis.
Describe the modern scientific understanding of the origin of life.
List four developments scientists think were necessary before life could originate on earth.
Describe how prokaryotes and eukaryotes might have evolved.
State a modern definition of evolution.
Describe how fossils can be used as evidence of evolution.
Summarize the evidence of evolution provided by living organisms.
Compare and contrast Lamarck’s theory and Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Define natural selection and outline the reasoning that led Darwin to conclude evolution could occur.
Give an example that evolution is taking place right now.
Explaining why adaptive radiation is a form of divergent evolution.
Summarize how mutation and migration each disrupt genetic equilibrium.
Describe how geographic isolation can lead to speciation.
Outline the role of adaptation in the survival of extinction of a species.
Requirements
Reading/homework
Online Quizzes: #17, #18, #19, & #20
Online Videos: Five of them. You will be given links to them during the unit.
Vocabulary list: Evolution vocabulary
Watch video and complete work sheet: N.G. Namib Desert
Complete lab(s): Natural Selection Lab, Biochemical Evidence for Evolution Lab, Breeding Bunnies Activity,
Time Line Activity, and Evolutionary Changes in Primates Lab
Vocabulary Quiz
Unit 8 Test: 50 questions
Important Dates
Online Quiz #17: _____________________________
Online Quiz #18 _____________________________
Online Quiz: 19: ______________________________
Online Quiz #20: _____________________________
Vocabulary Quiz: ____________________________
Unit Test: ____________________________
UNIT 8 BOOKWORK
Glencoe – BIOLOGY
Read Chapter 14
Read Chapter 15
Read Chapter 16
UNIT 8 VOCABULARY
Abiogenesis
Biogenesis
Adaptation
Adaptive radiation
Convergetn evolution
Divergent evolution
Homologous structures
Anologous structures
Vestigial organ
Natural selection
Gene flow
Gene pool
Gene frequency
Geographic isolation
Population
Reproductive isolation
Speciation
Species
Migration
Charles Darwin
Overpopulation
Competition
Survival of the fittest
Reproduction
Thomas Malthus
John Ray
Embryo
Fossil
Jean LaMarck
Half-life
Isotope
Natural selection
Punctuated equillibrium
Radioactive
Sedimentary rock
Stabilizing selection
Vestigial organ