8/10/2014 Evolution Unit Review Guide

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Assignments and Due Dates
Case Study: White-Striped Clover
Group Questions: ____
Individual Essay: ____
Case Study: My Brother's Keeper
Group Questions: ____
Individual Essay: ____
Videos:
Natural Selection ____
Examples of Selection____
Genetic Drift ____
Phylogenetics ____
Speciation and Extinction ____
The Origin of Life ____
ELab: Bunnies ____
Graphing: Types of Selection ____
Examining the Fossil Record ____
Evolution Discussion (online) ____
Articles:
Domesticated Dogs ____
Why so Many Mammals ______
Microbes Caused Extinction _____

Miscellaneous Assignments


Evolution Review Guide
Chapters 17 18, 19, and 32
Will also refer to selected discussions in class and on the class forum
(keep up with those!)
1. Describe the history of evolutionary thought
Lamarke's Theory of Acquired Characteristics
Alfred Russeel Wallace and biogeography
Carolus Linnaeus and Taxonomy
Cuvier and Catastrophism (paleontology)

2. Describe Darwin's observations that lead him to the publication of
"On the Original of Species"

3. Describe the process of natural selection in four steps.

4. Distinguish between the following terms:
homologous / analogous
macroevolution / microevolution
allopatric / sympatric speciation
divergent speciation / phyletic speciation
natural selection / artificial selection / sexual selection
hypothesis / theory
gradualism / punctuated equilibrium
direction / stabilizing / disruption selection
genetic drift / bottleneck / founder effect
species / variant / hybrid
gene flow / gene pool

5. What is meant by the term "fitness"?

6. What is an adaptation?

7. Provide examples of observed evolution

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8. Provide evidence that supports the theory of evolution by natural selection

9. Suggest reasons why creationism is not considered a scientific theory.

10. Compare competing theories of human evolution
11. What is a population? Why is it important to distinguish populations from individuals when considering
evolutionary processes?
12. What are the different types of nonrandom mating? Why is this a driving force in the evolution of a species?
13. What are reproductive isolating mechanisms and why are they important for populations?
14. How does convergent evolution explain the appearances of unrelated organisms found on different continents,
like the anoles.
15. What chemical processes may have resulted in the origins of life on the planet?
16. Describe the main eras and periods of the earth as explained by palentologists.
17. Describe methods used to determine the age of fossils.
18. List the main characteristics of all primates. What (if anything) separates humans from non-human primates?
19. Be able to examine cladograms and phylogenetic trees.