AP Biology Quarter 3: Weeks 20-21
January 21-Februarty 1, 2013
DATE
IN CLASS
Tuesday
(3; 95 min.)
1/22/13
Natural Selection and Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Thursday
(3; 95 min.)
1/24/13
BLAST Analysis
Monday
(3; 95 min.)
1/28/13
Speciation
Wednesday
(3; 80 min.)
1/30/13
Macroevolution and Cladistics
Friday
(3; 95 min.)
2/1/13
Evolution Summary: Ice Fish and Sickle Cell
C. Gay 1/21/13
* What evidence supports evolution? What has the
Modern Synthesis added to the work of Darwin?
What are the potential causes of microevolution?
* What can the sequence of a highly conserved
gene tell us about phylogeny and species?
*What is a species? How do new species arise?
*How does the fossil record chronicle macroevolution?
What is the role of mass extinctions and evo-devo in
evolution? What is the role of phylogenetics and
cladistics in systematics?
*How does natural selection affect humans? How
does natural selection work at a biochemical
level?
HOMEWORK
1. RPM +HW Problems
DUE: Th 1/24
2. Bring your Laptop
DUE: Th 1/24
1. Ch 14 SG
DUE: M 1/28
1. Ch 15 SG
DUE: W 1/30
1. Evolution Essay
DUE: F 2/1
2. Evolution Assessment
DUE: T 2/5
1. Evolution Assessment
DUE: T 2/5
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Knowledge
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Evidence of Evolution
o Darwin’s voyage and descent with modification
o Evidence of evolution: fossil record, biogeography,
comparative anatomy (homologous and analogous
structures), comparative embryology, molecular biology
Darwin’s Theory and the Modern Synthesis
o Natural selection and artificial selection
o Modern synthesis and population genetics
o Microevolution
o Hardy-Weinberg Principle (population size, isolation,
mutations, random mating, natural selection
o Genetic drift: bottleneck effect, founder effect
o Gene flow
o mutation
Variation and Natural Selection
o Polymorphic populations, clines, heterozygote advantage,
neutral variation
o Darwinian fitness
o Types of natural selection: stabilizing selection, directional
selection, diversifying selection
o Sexual dimorphism
o Limits of natural selection
Concept of Species
o Biological species concept, ring species
o Other species concept: morphological species, genealogical
species, ecological species
o Reproductive barriers: prezygotic barriers (temporal, habitat,
behavioral, mechanical, gametic), postzygotic barriers
(hybrid inviability, hybrid sterility, hybrid breakdown)
Mechanisms of Speciation
o Geographic isolation and allopatric speciation
o Adaptive radiation
o Sympatric speciation and polyploidy
o Gradualism vs. punctuated equillibrium
Earth History and Macroevolution
o Macroevolution and the geologic time scale
o Radiometric dating
o Continental drift: Pangea, Laurasia, Gondwana, plate
tectonics
o Mass extinctions
o Exaptation
o Evo-Devo and paedomorphosis
o Phylogenetic trees and cladistics
Systematics and Phylogenetic Biology
C. Gay 1/21/13
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Systematic classification
Convergent evolution: homology vs. analogy
Molecular comparisons: protein comparisons, DNA and
RNA comparisons, molecular clocks
o Cladistic analysis
The Domains of Life
o Three domain system
Early Earth and the Origin of Life
o Early Earth environment
o Origins of life, Miller-Urey
o Ribozymes and RNA world
o Molecular cooperatives
Animal Evolution and Diversity
o Characteristics of animals
o Origins of the animal kingdom
Invertebrates
o Porifera: radial symmetry, body plan, nutrition and digestion
o Cnidaria: radial symmetry, body plan, life cycle, nutrition
and digestion, development
o Platyhelminthes: bilateral symmetry, nutrition and digestion,
flukes, tapeworms, body cavities, disease
o Nematoda: body plan, nutrition and digestion, C. elegans,
diseases
o Mollusca: body plan, gastropods, bivalves, cephalopods
o Annelida: segmentation, earthworms, polychetes, leeches
o Arthropoda: body plan, horseshoe crab, arachnids,
crustaceans, centipedes and millipedes, insects (types of
metamorphosis)
o Echinodermata: radial symmetry, body plan, water vascular
system
Vertebrates
o Features of Chordates: nerve chord, notochord, pharengeal
gill slits, post-anal tail
o Tunicates and Lancelets
o Vertebrates characteristics: skull and backbone, hinged jaws
o Chondricthyes and Osteichthyes
o Amphibians
o Reptiles and amniotic eggs
o Birds
o Mammals: monotremes, marsupials, eutherials
Phylogeny of the Animal Kingdom
o Evolutionary trends: tissues, symmetry, body cavity, coelom
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