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Subject Area
3: Science and Technology and Engineering Education
Standard Area
3.1: Biological Sciences
Organizing Category
3.1.C: Evolution
Course
3.1.B.C: BIOLOGY
Standard
3.1.B.C1:
Describe species as reproductively distinct groups of organisms.
Analyze the role that geographic isolation can play in speciation.
Explain how evolution through natural selection can result in changes in biodiversity through the increase or decrease of genetic diversity within a
population.
Describe how the degree of kinship between species can be inferred from the similarity in their DNA sequences.
Assessment Anchor
BIO.B.3:
Theory of Evolution
Anchor Descriptor
BIO.B.3.1:
Explain the mechanisms of evolution.
Eligible Content
BIO.B.3.1.1: Explain how natural selection can impact allele frequencies of a population.
Eligible Content
BIO.B.3.1.2: Describe the factors that can contribute to the development of new species (e.g., isolating mechanisms, genetic
drift, founder effect, migration).
Eligible Content
BIO.B.3.1.3: Explain how genetic mutations may result in genotypic and phenotypic variations within a population.
Anchor Descriptor
BIO.B.3.2:
Analyze the sources of evidence for biological evolution.
Eligible Content
BIO.B.3.2.1: Interpret evidence supporting the theory of evolution (i.e., fossil, anatomical, physiological, embryological,
biochemical, and universal genetic code).
Anchor Descriptor
BIO.B.3.3:
Apply scientific thinking, processes, tools, and technologies in the study of evolution.
Eligible Content
BIO.B.3.3.1: Distinguish among the scientific terms: hypothesis, inference, law, theory, principle, fact, and observation.
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