Chapter | Lecture Notes | Reading Guide | Video Links |
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22: Descent with Modification | Click here for the notes on Darwin.
Click here for the notes on evidence of evolution. |
Click here for the Chapter 22 reading guide. | Click here for a Chapter 22 video on Darwin and evidence for evolution. Click here for a Chapter 22 video on the mechanisms of evolution. |
23: The Evolution of Populations | Click here for the notes on Hardy-Weinberg equations.
Click here for the notes on the evolution of populations. |
Click here for the Chapter 23 reading guide. | Click here for an EXCELLENT video on the evolution of populations! |
Chapter 24: The Origin of Species | Click here for lecture notes for chapter 24! | Click here for the reading guide for Chapter 24. | Click here for a Chapter 24 video |
25: History of Life on Earth | Click here for notes on the origin of life. | There is no reading guide for this chapter. Instead, we will be going to the Natural History museum. | Click here for the Chapter 25 video focusing on the fossil record. |
Labs and Field Trips
- Evolution Lab and Video
- Here is the butterfly evolution lab. Credit to Kim Foglia.
- Here is the “How Evolution Really Works” video we watched in class
- AP Biology Population Genetics Lab
- Here is the pre-lab from Lab Bench. You will use this site for the pre-lab qs!
- Field Trip to Sant Ocean Hall
- Here is the Ocean Hall Assignment that we will use at the museum.
- Virtual Field Trip: The Voyage of the Beagle
- Here is what we viewed in class.
- View the field trip on Google Earth. You will need Google Earth and this program. Download both!
- Here’s the low-tech version.
- Here is what we viewed in class.
- Evolution Gems from Nature.
- “In Ducks, War of the Sexes Plays Out in Evolution” article from the NY Times.
Supplementary Reading
Videos Watched in Class
- Video
Unit Objective
- Explain how theories of gradualism and uniformitarianism influenced Darwin’s ideas about evolution.
- Describe Lamarck’s explanation of how adaptations evolve and compare it to Darwin’s.
- Explain the tenets of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, using Darwin’s and modern examples.
- Explain evolution by natural selection through a series of simulations and labs (butterflies and strawfish).
- Use the Hardy-Weinberg theorem to calculate allele, genotype, and phenotype frequencies in a population at equilibrium, and describe and explain the conditions that violate this equilibrium through a lab. Describe the usefulness and limitations of the HW model.
- Explain how genetic drift, gene flow, mutation, nonrandom mating, and natural selection lead to evolution within a species as well as speciation. Explain and give examples of the three types of selection.
- Explain the causes of genetic variation – mutation, recombination (delayed until genetics units), sexual reproduction – within a population and the prevalence of sexual reproduction as a way of providing variation through a reading, video, discussion, and simulation. Explain how sexual selection contributes to evolution.
- Define, compare/contrast, and give examples of adaptive radiation, convergent and divergent evolution; allopatric, sympatric and parapatric speciation; gradualism and punctuated equilibrium.
- Describe how the following gives evidence of evolution: embryology, fossils, homology, vestigial organs, and biochemistry.
- Define the biological species concept and describe the limitations of the concept.
- Distinguish between prezygotic and postzygotic isolation mechanisms.
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