SBI3U Test Review Sheet: EVOLUTION UNIT
Test Date:
Format: Short answer, multiple choice, and calculations
Materials Required: Pencil, eraser and pen and A CALCULATOR. No cell phone allowed.
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on the morning of the test to explain the absence. Make up test is only granted based on legitimate reasons.
TOPICS ON TEST
A good set of notes (with homework completed) and handouts is your best studying tool. The use of the textbook is also
encouraged.
 Fact, Law and Theory (See first ppt lesson on Evolution Introduction)
 Evolution as a scientific theory (See first ppt lesson on Evolution Introduction) & its power to make predictions
 Adaptation, mimicry, and the effect of neutral, beneficial and harmful mutations on evolution
 Briefly describe the contributions of the following people: Georges Buffon, Charles Lyell, George Cuvier, Jean
Lamarck, Thomas Malthus, Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace
Key Terms: inheritance of acquired characteristics, catastrophism, uniformitarianism, palaeontology, natural
selection, spontaneous generation
 Compare Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection with that proposed by Lamarck's inheritance of
acquired characteristics and use/disuse of body parts
 Be able to describe the different lines of evidence of evolution: paleontology (fossil record), embryology,
comparative anatomy (analogous and homologous structures and know how to identify them), comparative
biochemistry (also molecular biology evidence), artificial selection (knows the experiment discussed in class on
guppies; consequences of artificial selection) and biogeography
 Make sure to complete and watch videos found in Evidence of evolution flipped classroom lesson (ppt) and
evidence of evo. lab/worksheet
 Fossil and change over time activity
 Article on Ardi: what are her general physical characteristics, the environment she lived in and why is Ardi's
finding significant
Key Terms: analogous and homologous structures, vestigial structures, transitional fossils and their examples.
 State and explain the theory of evolution by natural selection
 Know that sexual selection is a special case of natural selection; the advantages and trade-offs of being sexually
selected for
Key Terms: VISTA, fitness, selective advantage, selective pressure, sexual dimorphism
 Misconceptions about natural selection: be able to discuss eloquently why it is a misconception or give an
example of a misconception in evolution
 Microevolution and macroevolution
 Know all mechanisms of evolution: NS, sexual selection, Mutation, Gene flow, Genetic drift
 Know types of NS: stabilizing, directional and disruptive & their examples
 How NS operates in the case of the peppered moth
 Speciation: what it is and the difficulty incurred with the definition of a species; why hybrids are evolutionary
dead-ends?
 Types of speciation: sympatric and allopatric speciation
 Pattern of evolution: convergent and divergent evolution; coevolution and example
 Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium: its significant as a tool to illustrate the inevitability of evolution in natural
populations in relation to the five conditions (or assumptions) that must be met
 Apply H-W equation to calculate allele and genotype frequencies of a population
Key Terms: gene pool, allele frequency
 All response journal articles we have done thus far (e.g. bed bugs bite back, hybrid shark, cuttlefish sneaky
mating strategies, ardi article, are we stop evolving article).
 Video: What Darwin never Knew and Dog decoded (can be found online if you want to watch again)
 Any practice quiz we've done so far
Try Unit 3 self quiz : 1-11, 13-15, 23, 26, 27 p 380-381
Review: 1-3, 5,6,8-15, 32, 33 p 382