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Student Learning Objectives: Introduction
1. What were the contributions of Aristotle, Theologists, Linnaeus, Buffon, Hutton, Malthus,
Cuvier, and Lyell to the background story of evolutionary thought?
2. What were the contributions of Anaxamander, Lamarck, Mendel, and Darwin to the
current story of evolutionary thought?
3. What are the currently held characteristics used to define life?
4. Explain the perturbations (variations or conditions) of each characteristic of life?
5. What are the two ways in which people think and what are the steps to the process of
the scientific method?
6. How can you distinguish the independent, dependent, and control variables of an
experiment?
7. How has man classified the organisms on earth into groups? (Domains, Kingdoms, etc.)
8. What are the basic characteristics that all animals share?
9. What are the various tools (and how they are used?) used by man to show evidence for
evolutionary ideas?
Student Learning Objectives: Evolutionary Processes
1. Define the relationships between the terms: Population & Specie, Gene Pool & Gene
Frequency, Homozygous & Heterozygous, and Gene & Allele as they relate to evolution?
2. How did Mendel’s principles explain the diversity of organisms on earth or did they?
3. What are Mendel’s conditions and how are they applied to explain animal population
diversity?
4. How does the Hardy-Weinberg (H-W) principle explain the diversity of organisms on
earth or does it?
5. What are the H-W conditions and how are they applied to explain to explain animal
population diversity?
6. What are the trends in microevolution (gene flow, genetic drift, mutation, mating, and
natural selection) that cause population diversity?
7. How do the natural selective processes of stabilizing effects differ from directional
effects from disruptive effects in terms of population changes?
8. How can competition, predation, sex selection, altruism, and symbiosis cause changes in
population densities?
9. What are some forces (natural vs. man-made) that can cause the extinction of a specie
or population?
10. How do the allopatric, sympatric, and parapatric speciation (macroevolution) processes
differ?
11. How do pre-zygotic and post-zygotic barriers affect speciation by isolating organisms?
12. What are the ideas used to explain the pace or trends of evolution and how do
Exaptation and Allometric growth play a role in species evolution?
Student Learning Objectives: Origins of Life
1. Which are the major earth eras developed by man and used to divide the ages into these
eras?
2. What is the usual time line for the major events of evolution?
3. How did temperature cycling, sea level changes, and continental shifting throughout
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time affect organism diversity on earth?
What was the earth like before and after life began on the earth?
What were the key earth events that possibly caused the diversity of life on earth?
What were the possible major events impacting the development of living organisms on
earth?
How has man organized the various animal groupings (Trees vs. Clades)?
Student Learning Objectives: Animal Strategies
1. How are animals, in general, organized by complexity?
2. What are the four basic tissue types found in animals and how does the individual
structure and function of these tissues differ?
The Practice Exam will cover questions through number 30 only.
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