CONCEPT MAP

 

            Key Concepts:                                                                                   Key Vocabulary:

Evolution

Fossil record

Geologic Time

Natural Selection

Over reproduction

“Survival of Fittest”

Genetic Variation

Adaptation

Mutation

“Genetic Shuffling”

Homologous Structu

Gradualism

Punctuated Equilibr

Extinction

Meiosis

Recombination

Radiation

Pathogens

Fertilization

 
                                                                                                                       

Living things have changed over time

 

 

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

 

                                                           

Topic: The Theory of Evolution

 

 
The importance and sources of variation

 

 

The rate of evolution

 

 

Extinction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Examples:

Fossil Record

Over reproduction struggle to survive

Punctuated equilibrium and gradualism

Birth rate vs. death rate

Antibiotic resistance

Genetic shuffling

Mutation

Structural, functional, and behavioral change

Peppered moths

Survival of the Fittest (selection)

Genetic shuffling

(meiosis and recombination)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enduring Understanding (s): Species evolve over time.  Changes in a species’ DNA cause the evolution of the species.  Natural Selection determines the direction of evolution.  _________________________________________________

 

 

Essential Question (s): If all organisms today have evolved from organisms of the past, have any organisms truly become extinct?  _______________________________________________________

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