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300 Biology: Unit 10 – Evolution
Ch 12: Evolution
Essential Questions:
 What is the role of natural selection in creating diversity in organisms?
 What is the evidence that supports the modern theory of evolution?
You should be able to:
 Explore Darwin’s observations & parallel his road to the discovery that life forms change over time.
 Uncover the lines of evidence that led Darwin & others to suggest evolutionary theory.
 Demonstrate that the process of natural selection has provided the tremendous diversity of life on earth.
 Apply your knowledge of genetics to explain how alterations have taken place in living organisms to create diversity.
 Theorize about how the first living organisms were formed & how the evolution of the first autotrophs affected the
future of life on earth.
Ch 13: Adaptation & Speciation (***Few topics in chapter 13 are directly covered… what is covered is generally
covered in conjunction with related concepts in chapter 12.***)
Essential Questions:
 How do organisms change over time?
VOCABULARY
 adaptation
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 adaptive radiation
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 allele frequencies
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 analogous structures
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 comparative anatomy
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 comparative biochemistry 
comparative embryology
competition
convergent evolution
divergent evolution
evolution
extinct
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fossil
gene pool
homologous structures
mutation
natural selection
population
Book Work
Ch 12: Evolution
 Section 12.1
o Read pgs. 304-315
o answer # 1, 2, 3, 5 (pg. 315)
 Section 12.2
o Read pgs. 316-323
o answer # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (pg. 323)
 Section 12.3
o Read pgs. 324-329
o answer # 1, 2, 3 (pg. 329)
 Read B, T, & S section (pg. 330-331)
 Chapter review questions
o answer # 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 18 (pgs. 332-333)
Ch 13: Adaptation & Speciation
 Section 13.1
o Read pgs. 334-341
o answer # 3 (pg. 341)
 Section 13.2
o Read pgs. 342-351
o answer # 1 (pg. 351)
 Read B, T, & S section (pg. 360-361)
 Chapter review questions
o answer # 2, 17, 18 (pgs. 362-363)
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random
speciation
species
survival of the fittest
variation
vestigial