Evolution Unit Chapter 4

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The following State of Ohio Biology Standards, as adopted in 2010, are used in the unit:

Chapter 11 & 12:

• Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations;

• Design and conduct scientific investigations;

• Formulate and revise explanations and models using logic and evidence (critical thinking);

• Recognize and analyze explanations and models;

• Communicate and support a scientific argument;

• Mechanisms of Evolution;

• Natural selection;

• Mutation;

• Genetic drift;

• Gene flow (immigration, emigration);

• Sexual selection;

• History of life on Earth; and

• Variation of organisms within a species due to population genetics and gene frequency

Chapter 13:

• Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations;

• Design and conduct scientific investigations;

• Formulate and revise explanations and models using logic and evidence (critical thinking);

• Recognize and analyze explanations and models;

• Communicate and support a scientific argument;

• Speciation and biological classification based on molecular evidence; and

• Classification systems are frameworks created by scientists for describing the vast diversity of organisms indicating the degree of relatedness between organisms.