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Ch 14 – 16 (blue book):
Evolution
ES-C3. Explain how geologic time can be estimated by multiple methods (e.g., rock sequences, fossil correlation
and radiometric dating).
ES-C4. Describe how organisms on Earth contributed to the dramatic change in oxygen content of Earth's early
atmosphere.
LS-E13. Explain that the variation of organisms within a species increases the likelihood that at least some
members of a species will survive under gradually changing environmental conditions.
LS-E14. Relate diversity and adaptation to structures and their functions in living organisms (e.g., adaptive
radiation).
LS-H20. Recognize that a change in gene frequency (genetic composition) in a population over time is a
foundation of biological evolution.
LS-H21. Explain that natural selection provides the following mechanism for evolution; undirected variation in
inherited characteristics exist within every species. These characteristics may give individuals an
advantage or disadvantage compared to others in surviving and reproducing. The advantaged offspring
are more likely to survive and reproduce. Therefore, the proportion of individuals that have
advantageous characteristics will increase. When an environment changes, the survival value of some
inherited characteristics may change.
LS-H22. Describe historical scientific developments that occurred in evolutionary thought (e.g., Lamarck and
Darwin, Mendelian Genetics and modern synthesis).
LS-I24. Analyze how natural selection and other evolutionary mechanisms (e.g., genetic drift, immigration,
emigration, mutation) and their consequences provide a scientific explanation for the diversity and unity
of past life forms, as depicted in the fossil record, and present life forms.
LS-I25. Explain that life on Earth is thought to have begun as simple, one celled organisms approximately 4
billion years ago. During most of the history of Earth only single celled microorganisms existed, but once
cells with nuclei developed about a billion years ago, increasingly complex multicellular organisms
evolved.
We will be studying many topics related to life on Earth:
o the origin of the Earth, Earth’s history and how/when life first developed
on Earth
o different ways that organisms and populations change over time
o historic ideas of life and how they were discounted experimentally
o historic ideas about evolution and how the modern theory came to be
o the four parts to the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
o evidence for the modern Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
o Examples of evolution in action on populations
This unit will be a little different in that we will be using the blue (old) book as our
main reference. It has the information a little more clear and concise. In addition, you will
not have to read the whole chapters and take notes. You will be given a reading guide to fill
out, due the day you take the vocab. quiz. We will be focusing our studies only on scientific
explanations; those that can be disproven using scientific methodology.
At the end of the unit, you will have a mixed format (multiple choice, short answer,
diagrams…) test over the material.
Ch 14 – 16 Vocab
_____ biogenesis
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_____ radiometric dating
_____ spontaneous generation _____
_____ half life
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_____ archaea
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_____ evolution
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_____ natural selection
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_____ adaptation
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_____ relative age
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_____ transitional species
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_____ homologous structure
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_____ analogous structure
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_____ vestigial structure
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_____ convergent evolution
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_____ divergent evolution
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_____ adaptive radiation
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_____ artificial selection
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_____ coevolution
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_____ population genetics
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_____ microevolution
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_____ gene pool
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_____ allele frequency
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_____ phenotype frequency
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_____ immigration
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_____ emigration
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_____ gene flow
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_____ genetic drift
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_____ speciation
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_____ morphology
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_____ geographic isolation
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_____ allopatric speciation
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_____ reproductive isolation
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_____ sympatric isolation
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_____ gradualism
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_____ punctuated equilibrium _____
(absolute age)
_____ Hardy-Weinberg
equlibrium