Unit 6a: Evolution and Natural Selection

Learning Targets

Evolution

I Can Describe How Darwin Explained The Diversity Of Life.

• 1. I can explain how Darwin used natural selection to explain evolution

  2. I can explain how Darwin deñne a species and the processes that lead to new species.

I Can Explain How Natural Selection Results In Organisms Being Adapted To Their Local Environment.

• 1. I can deñne variation and describe the processes (mutations and sexual recombination) that lead to it.

  2. I can explain what an adaptation is and how it relates to natural selection.

  3. I can identify I examples of how natural selection is relevant in today’s World (ex: antibiotics and pesticide resistance).

I Can Describe & Explain The Major Forms Of Evidence Of Evolution.

• 1. I can analyze fossil data and use observations to make prediction about how life evolved.

  2. I can describe homologous structures and explain how they are evidence of evolution.

  3. I can describe analogous structures and explain how they are evidence of evolution.

  4. I can describe vestigial structures and explain how they are evidence of evolution

  5. I can analyze molecular data (DNA or protein sequences)to draw conclusions about evolutionary relationships.

  6. I can analyze the development of embryos and draw conclusions about evolutionary relationships