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Honors Biology Chapter 16 and 17 Population Genetics, Speciation, Classification
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1. Be able to a) describe the genetic material of organism b) define population c) explain why
populations are important to the study of evolution.
2. Be able to describe 3 causes of genetic variation in a population.
3. Be able to explain the relationship of a bell curve to variation of a trait in a species.
4. Be able to a) list three causes of genetic variation b) list 2 other causes of genetic variation that
are being investigated.
5. Be a) able to explain how phenotype frequency is computed.
6. Be able to a) explain how an allele frequency is calculated b) calculate the frequency of the r
allele is half of a population of four o’clocks has red flowers and half has white flowers.
7. Be able to a) list the conditions that population must meet in order to have genetic equilibrium
b) explain the Hardy-Weinberg genetic equilibrium principle
8. 8. Be able to explain how immigration and emigration affect gene flow of a population
9. Be able to describe genetic drift and why it may be a possible mechanism for the evolution of a
new species.
10. Be able to a) describe two situations of nonrandom mating.
11. Be able to give an example of a species that exhibits the effects of sexual selection.
12. Be able to contrast stabilizing selection, disruptive selection and directional selection.
13. Be able to explain the biological species concept.
14. Be able to explain how geographic isolation can lead to allopatric speciation.
15. Be able to explain how reproductive isolation can lead to sympatric speciation
16. Be able to compare punctuated equilibrium with gradualism.
17. Be able to a) list the levels of classifications categories starting with Kingdome and below.
b) list the category names for humans c) describe what is meant by a domain
18. Be able to a) explain what is meant by binomial nomenclature b) state the scientific name for
humans. c) explain what is meant by a subspecies and give an example.
19. Be able to a) contrast a shared character with a derived character. b) describe a clade.
c) construct and analyze a cladogram. (handouts)
20. Be able to List and describe the characteristics of each Kingdom of the 6 Kingdom system
Make study stack files for chapters 16 and 17 (skip taaxon, domain, phylum, division, class, order,
family, Bacteria, archaea, Eukarya, Archaebacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia