EVOLUTION UNIT OBJECTIVES (Ch. 13, 14, 15, 16, 19)
Ch. 13 Objectives: How Populations Evolve
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
13.1How did Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle influenced his thinking?
13.2 How did each scientist ideas contribute to Darwin’s theory?
a) Malthus-
b) Lyell –
c) Lamarck -
13.4Identify the 5 main pieces of evidence that support the theory of evolution.
Population Genetics and the Modern Synthesis
13.9Differentiate between genetic drift and gene flow.
13.9 Explain how each affect the evolution of a population:
- bottleneck effect
- founder effect
Variation and Natural Selection
13.12What 2 factors produce genetic variation in populations?
13.12 How does isolation of 2 populations lead to speciation? Explain using the ‘Grand Canyon’ squirrels as an example.
13.15Explain how “survival of the fittest” can be a misleading statement.
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Ch. 14 Objectives: The Origin of Species
Concepts of Species
14.3List 5 types of prezygotic barriers and 3 types of postzygotic barriers that prevent populations belonging to closely related species from interbreeding.
Mechanisms of Speciation
14.4Explain how geologic processes can fragment populations (i.e. Grand Canyon)
14.8Explain why the Galápagos finches are a good example of adaptive radiation.
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Ch. 15 Objectives: Tracing Evolutionary History
Phylogeny and Systematics
15.7 Who is Carl Linnaeus and what makes up the scientific name of an organism?
15.7 List the taxa order for grouping organisms, from largest to smallest.
15.8Look at Fig. 15.8A on p. 306. What does a cladogram show us?
15.10Identify the five-kingdoms and three-domains of classification.
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Ch. 16 Objectives: The Origin and Evolution of Microbial Life
16.3 Why is the Miller-Urey experiment significant?
What chemicals were found in the early Earth’s atmosphere?
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Ch. 19 Objectives: Human Evolution
19.6 When AND where do scientists believed the first Homo sapiens arose?
19.4-19.6 Name 3 characteristics that define early hominid from apes.