Z-Evolution Scavenger Hunt
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Instructions
Evolution
1. Save this file including your name at the
beginning of the file name.
2. Type in your name and period above.
3. Use
to search for
“Evolution”.
4. Go (click the link) to the “Evolution
Entrance” (It’s really “The Evolution
Wing”)
5. Go to “Talk Origins Archive”.
6. Go to “Browse the Archive”
7. Go to “Must Read Files”
8. Go to “What Is Evolution”
9. Read and Define (copy & paste) Biological
Evolution
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
1. Go back (use the back button or repeat
previous steps) to “The Evolution Wing”
2. Find (you’ll have to look around!) and go to
“Timeline of Evolutionary Thought”
3. How many (count) people had been
thinking about evolution before
Charles Darwin?
4. Find, copy & paste a picture of Lamarck
5. What was Lamarck’s discredited theory
of heredity? Explain it (in your own
words)!
Charles Darwin
1. Find, copy & paste a picture of Charles
Darwin.
2. What was the voyage of the Beagle?
3. Find and list the titles of Darwin’s three
major publications
4. What year was “The Origin Of Species”
published?
5. Of the three kinds of evolutionary thinkers,
Scavenged Items (Number your items!)
which was the minority?
6. Who came up with the same idea as Darwin
at the same time?
Natural Selection
1. Use
to search for
“Natural Selection”
2. Go to “Evolution and Natural Selection”
3. Explain how natural selection involves
genes, meiosis, mutation and recombination.
4. Which individuals of a population
“perpetuate the species by passing on the
genes conferring "fitness" to the next
generation” leading to adaptation.
Morphology
1. Switch (use the task bar) to Internet
Explorer and type the following URL into
the address field:
http://www.dictionary.com
2. Find for the definition of this item.
3. Copy and paste definition 1.
4. Use
and search for “morphing”.
5. Go to “3D Volume Morphing”.
6. Watch the “Morph sequence” of the human
and orangutan skulls.
7. Copy and paste the image of the “orangutan
head” and the “human head”
8. Explain what similar morphology may be
evidence of.
Homologous Structure
1. Find and give an example of homologous
structures.
2. Find, copy and paste one or more images of
an example.
3. Explain what this is evidence of.
Vestigial Structure
1. Find and give an example of vestigial
structures.
2. Find, copy and paste one or more
images of an example.
3. Explain what this is evidence of.
Phylogeny
1. Choose a search engine.
2. Find and go to the “phylogeny of gopher
lice”.
3. How many branches are there leading from
the common ancestor at the beginning of the
tree, to Geomydoecus texanus texanus?
4. Copy and paste an image of this species.
5. Follow the tree backwards from this species
two branching points. Including
Geomydoecus texanus texanus, how many
species reside on this branch?
6. What does this tell us about the evolutionary
relationship between these species?
7. Now find “A Phylogeny of Living
Hominoids”. Which living hominoid is
most closely related to humans?
8. Could a phylogenetic tree such as the ones
you have been looking at be created to show
a relationship between every living thing on
earth? Why?
9. Explain what this is evidence of.
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
1. Use
and search for
“evolution evidence from living organisms”.
2. Go to “Evolution”
3. Review the evidence, copy & paste the
image that fits with this item.
4. What does “ontogeny recapitulates
phylogeny” mean?
5. Explain what this is evidence of.
Molecular Sequence
1. Use
and search
for “Domestic dogs descended from wolves,
researchers confirm”.
2. Briefly describe what these researchers did
and what they concluded from their study.
3. Use
and search
for “cytochrome C amino acid sequence
evolution” and go to “How can We Analyze
the Flood of Data”.
4. Explain what is special about cytochrome C
and what has been done with it.
5. Copy and paste the small image of the
cytochrome C molecule.
6. Explain what this is evidence of.
Species
1. Use
to search
for “species biological definition”
2. Go to “Brief Definitions” and give the
definition of species presented but add the
words “…and produce viable offspring”.
This is our working definition of species.
3. Find an image of your favorite species.
Copy and paste it.
Population vs. Individual
1. Use
to search for
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
“biology ecology population definition”.
Go to “Populations” and give the definition
presented but add the words…”at the same
time”.
Which has the capacity to evolve, an
individual or a population?
Copy and paste the graph showing human
population growth over time.
What are three reasons for this population
growth?
What do you think is the significance of this
for other species on earth?
Biological Potential
1. Use
to search for
“reproductive potential”.
2. Go to “2.8g How Do Pops Change.urls :
reproductive_potential”.
3. Which of the four boxes contains the
concept important to the evolution of
species? Give this information as the
definition of biological potential.
Variation
1. Find and give a definition of variation along
with an example.
2. Use
to search for
“process of evolution”.
3. Go to “Process of evolution”.
4. List the four processes of evolution and give
the importance of variation.
Adaptation
1. Use
to search for “Are
evolution and adaptation different?”.
2. Go to “Are adaptation and evolution the
same thing??”.
3. Answer the question including one example.
4. Find, copy and paste a picture of a polar
bear.
Adaptive Radiation
1. Use
to search
for this item.
2. Go to “Adaptive radiation & Endemic
species on islands”
3. Go to “Click here to start”
4. View the entire presentation.
5. What is adaptive radiation?
6. Describe one great example.
7. Copy and paste an image to accompany the
example.
Divergent Evolution & Speciation
1. Use
to search for
“divergent evolution”
2. Go to “Evolution – The Evidence”.
8. Give a definition and an example for this
item.
9. Copy and paste an image to support your
example.
10.Use
to search for
“speciation”.
11.Go to “BBC News | SCI/TECH | Songbird
shows how evolution works”.
12.Explain what speciation is and why it was
included with divergent evolution.
Convergent Evolution
1. Go back to “Evolution – The Evidence”.
2. Give a definition and an example for this
item.
3. Copy and paste an image to support your
example.
4. How might convergent evolution confuse
the classification of species?
Reproductive Isolation
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2.
3.
4.
Use
to search for this item.
Go to “The Process of Speciation”.
Go to “Reproductive Isolation”
Read the sections on both reproductive
isolation and speciation.
5. Copy and paste the figure showing
allopatric and sympatric speciation.
6. What about the “new geographical zones”
would speed up divergence between
populations?
Stabilizing Selection
1. Use
to search for this
item.
2. Go to “natural selection”.
3. Copy and paste the graph image for this
item.
4. Explain what stabilizing selection is.
Disruptive Selection
1. Stay at “Types of Natural Selection”
2. Copy and paste the graph image for this
item.
3. Explain what disruptive selection is.
Directional Selection
1. Stay at “Types of Natural Selection”.
2. Copy and paste the graph image for this
item.
3. Explain what directional selection is.
Sexual Selection
1.
“What is sexual selection?
2. Go to “Sprinks by About.com”
3. Go to “Introduction to Natural and Sexual
Selection”
4. Go to “Side Box 3.1: Runaway sexual
selection”
5. Copy and paste the animated figure.
6. Describe what the image represents and
what the result is.
7. Give one example of sexual selection.
Include an image of your example.
Coevolution
This is a tuffy that I’m not going to give you
guidance for. Do the best you can and include a
definition/explanation and at least one example
image.
Gradualism vs. Punctuated Equilibrium
1. Find your way back to “Evolution – The
Evidence”
2. Give a definition and an example for both of
these concepts.
3. Copy and paste an image to support your
examples.
4. Which one is the way you think evolution
works?
1. BBC Evolution Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/origin/