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AP Biology: Griffin
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Course: AP Biology
Unit 7: Evolutionary Biology
Essential Questions: What is evolution? What processes drive evolution? What is the evidence for evolution? How do new species form?
How are the relationships between species illustrated? Where and how did life begin on earth? Is evolution a continuing process?
Length of Unit: 3 weeks
AP Big Ideas: 1,4
1. The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life
4.Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions
possess complex properties
Enduring Understandings:
Science Practices for AP Biology
SP 1. The student can use reprosentations and models to communicate scientific
phenomena and solve scientific problems.
SP2.The student can use mathematics appropriately
SP3: The student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or go
guide investigations with the context of the AP course.
SP4.The student can plan and implement data collection strategies appropriate
to a particular scientific question.
SP5.The student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence.
SP6: The student can work with scientific explanations and theories
SP7: The student is able to connect and relate knowledge across various scales,
concepts and reprosentations in and across domains.
Essential Knowledge
1a.Change in genetic makeup of a population over time is evolution
1b.Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry
1c.Life continues to evolve within a changing environment
1d.The origin of living systems is explained by natural processes
4a. interactions within biological systems lead to complex properties
4b. competition and cooperation are important aspects of biological systems
4c. naturally occurring diversity among and between components within biological
systems affects interactions with the environment
1.A.1: Natural selection is a major mechanism of eolution
1.A.2: Natural selection acts on phenotypic variations in populations
1A.3: Evolutionar change is also dirven by random processes
1A.4: Biological evolution is supported by scientific evidence from amny disciplines,
includig mathematics
1.B.1: Organisms share many conserved core processes and features that evolved and
are widely distributed among organisms today
1.B.2: Phylogenetic trees and cladograms are graphical representations of
evolutionary history that can be tested
1.C.1: Speciation and extinction have occurred throughout the Earth’s history.
1.C.2: Speciation may occur when two populations become reproductively isolated
from each other
1.C.3: Populations of organisms continue to evolve
1.D.1. There are several hypotheses about the natural origin of life on Earth, each
with supporting scientific evidence
1.D.2: Scientific evidence from many different disciplines supports models of the
origin of life.
AP Biology: Griffin
Critical Vocabulary
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Natural selection, fitness, speciation, Hardy-Weinberg, equilibrim, punctuated equilibrium, gradualism, homologous and
analogous structures, vestigial structures, embryology, phylogeny, species, population, directional selection, stabilizing selection,
disruptive selection, phenotype, mutation, allele, gene pool, genetic drift, bottleneck effect, gene flow, extinction, allopatric and
sympatric isolation
Formative assessment: objective analysis, what do I still
Summative assessment: questions from released items (multiple choice, short
need to understand, how can I understand it better.
answers, free reponses-modeled after AP exam)
Chapter Quizzes
lab analysis
Assessment
Resources
Guided readings, on line practice quizzes,the Biology Place
Literacy Strategies
Research
Biological inquiry-investigating cases, guided reading with Holtzclaw notes
Program Review
Connection
Lab analysis questions
Practice free responses
Written lab reports
Writing
Arts/Humanities
Practical Living
Laboratory Activities
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AP Lab Population Genetics
AP Inquiry Lab: Artificial Selection