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Big Idea:
Big Idea:
Student Expectations:
Student Expectations:
Main Ideas
Main Ideas
Big Idea 1: Evolution - The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life
Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding
1.A. Change in the genetic makeup of a population over time is evolution
1.B: Organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry
1.C: Life continues to evolve within a changing environment
1.D: The origin of living systems is explained by natural processes
Essential Knowledge
Essential Knowledge
1.A.1: Natural selection is a major mechanism of evolution
1.A.2: Natural selection acts on phenotypic variations in populations
1.A.3: Evolutionary change is also driven by random processes
1.A.4: Biological evolution is supported by scientific evidence from many disciplines, including mathematics
1.B.1: Organisms share many conserved core processes and features that evolved and are widely distributed among organisms today
1.B.2: Phylogenetic trees and cladograms are graphical representations of evolutionary history that can be tested.
1.C.1: Speciation and extinction have occurred throughout the Earth's history
1.C.2: Speciation may occur when two populations become reproductively isolated from each other
1.C.3: Populations of organisms continue to evolve
1.D.1: There are several hypotheses about the natural origin of life on earth, each with supporting evidence
1.D.2: Scientific evidence from many different disciplines supports models of the origin of life
Student Learning Targets:
Student Learning Targets:
Descent with Modification
- Darwinian View of Life
- Lamarck’s View of Evolution
- Examples of Evolution
- Homologous vs. Analogous Structures and how they relate to evolution
- The role of Adaptations, Variation, Time, Reproductive Success, and Heritability in Evolution
Evolution of Populations
- How mutation and sexual reproduction each produce genetic variation.
- The conditions for Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium.
- How to use the Hardy-Weinberg equation to calculate allelic frequencies and to test whether a population is evolving.
Origin of Species
- The difference between microevolution and macroevolution.
- The biological concept of species.
- Prezygotic and postzygotic barriers that maintain reproductive isolation in natural populations.
- How allopatric and sympatric speciation are similar and different.
- How an autopolyploid or an allopolyploid chromosomal change can lead to sympatric speciation.
- How punctuated equilibrium and gradualism describe two different tempos of speciation.
History of Life on Earth
- The age of the Earth and when prokaryotic and eukaryotic life emerged.
- Characteristics of the early planet and its atmosphere.
- How Miller and Urey tested the Oparin-Haldane hypothesis and what they learned.
- Methods used to date fossils and rocks.
- Evidence for endosymbiosis.
- How continental drift can explain the current distribution of species.
Phylogeny and the Tree of Life
- The taxonomic categories and how they indicate relatedness.
- How systematics is used to develop phylogenetic trees.
- The three domains of life including their similarities and their difference
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- How did life begin on Earth?
- How are all things related?
- How do we name living organisms?
- How did all species form on Earth?
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