Biology Quarter 4: Weeks 36-38

May 28-June 12, 2013

DATE / IN CLASS / HOMEWORK
Tuesday-Wednesdyay
(1,2; 95 min.
5; 80 min.)
5/28-29/13 / The Great Fossil Layer Cake
* How do fossils support the construction of phylogenic trees? / 1. Final Exam Part I
DUE: Th-F 5/30-31
Thursday-Friday
(1,2,5; 95 min.)
5/30-31/13 / Final Exam Part I: Turning In Ceremony
Cladistics and Caminalcules
*How do Caminalcules represent convergent evolution and vestigial structures? / 1. Biology18.2 Notes
DUE M-T6/3-4
2. Deadline Qtr 4 work
2:15 pm M 6/3

Monday-Tuesday

(1,2,5; 95 min.)
6/3-4/13 / Cladistics and Caminalcules
*How do Caminalcules represent convergent evolution and vestigial structures / 1. Biology18.3 Notes
DUE W-Th6/5-6

Wednesday-Thursday

(1,2; 80 min.
5; 85 min.)
6/5-6/13 / Final Exam Preparation
*How do the characteristics of life work at each level of the hierarchy? / 1. Final Exam Preparation
DUE: F-W6/7-12

Friday-Wednesday

6/7-12/13
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Friday / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday
8:40-10:25 / 5 / 3 / 1 / 7
10:25-10:45 / Break
10:45-12:30 / 6 / 0/4 / 2 / 8

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Darwin and the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

  • Darwin’s Voyage and Observations
  • Biodiversity
  • Fossils
  • Individuals vary within a species
  • Western scientific thought – 19th century and before
  • Hutton, Lyell, and geology
  • Lamarck
  • Malthus and population growth
  • Evolution by Natural Selection
  • Artificial Selection
  • Natural Selection

Evidence Supporting Evolution

  • Fossils
  • Biogeography
  • Homologous structures
  • Vestigial structures
  • Similarities in anatomy and development
  • Other lines of evidence
  • Analogous structures and convergent evolution
  • Paleontology and radioisotopes
  • Coevolution
  • Comparative biochemistry and genomics

The fossil record

  • Fossil formation
  • Interpreting fossil evidence
  • Geologic time scale

The Earth’s early history

  • Formation of the Earth
  • First organic molecules; Miller and Urey
  • How life began
  • Formation of free oxygen
  • Origin of eukaryotic cells – endosymbiotic theory
  • Sexual reproduction and multicellularity

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