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Honors Biology
Chapter 13 Guided Reading Assignment
Name _________________________
1. What was the ship Darwin sailed around the world in? What parts of the world did
Darwin visit?
2. What does Darwin mean by “decent with modification?”
3. What is the great unifying theme of biology?
4. How are natural selection and artificial selection similar? How are they different?
5. What is the fossil record? Why is it considered such strong evidence for evolution?
6. Why is amber a good source for recovering organic material from ancient organisms?
7. What is biogeography? How does it reinforce evolution?
8. What is comparative anatomy? How does it reinforce evolution?
9. What is Comparative embryology? How does it reinforce evolution?
10. What is Molecular biology? How does it reinforce evolution?
11. In what sense is natural selection more of an editing process than a creative process?
12. What is a population?
13. Why is a population considered the unit of evolution (why not an individual)?
14. What is a gene pool? How is it related to microevolution?
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15. What is Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
16. What is the Hardy-Weinberg equation?
17. What are the 5 conditions for a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
18. In an imaginary booby population, the frequency of the recessive allele for webbed feet
is 0.4. What is the frequency of individuals that have nonwebbed feet?
19. What are genetic drift and gene flow? How are they different from natural selection?
20. What is the ultimate source of genetic variation? Why then is sexual recombination said
to be the greatest source of variation?
21. Explain why the following statement is incorrect: “Antibiotics have created resistant
bacteria.”
22. Why would natural selection ted to reduce genetic variation more in populations of
haploid organisms tan in populations of diploid organisms?
23. Who are the fittest individuals in the context of evolution?
24. Label the diagram. Explain each type of natural selection and give an example of each
(not using mice).
25. What is sexual dimorphism? How is it a result of sexual selection?
26. Why can’t natural selection fashion the perfect organism?
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