Unit 2: Micro and Macroevolution

Unit 2 Lectures

POWERPOINT: Ch. 22 (Natural Selection)

• READING QUIZ: Chapter 22

• Article: Winning By a Neck

• Video: Charles Darwin and his influences

• Video: Evolution of the Eye (4 min)

• Link: Becoming Human Interactive Documentary (optional)

• Video: Simulating natural selection (10 min)

• Video: Selfish Genes (6 min)

• Video: Evidence for Evolution (11 min)

Lab #1: Hardy-Weinberg Simulation

• Chi-Square Chart

• H-W Lab Data

• Simulation for Analysis: https://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/click/population-genetics-explorer/individual

• Help with using Chi-Square in Hardy-Weinberg problems:

  • Ms. Brunson's PPT

  • Walk-through website

  • Walk-through final analysis problem (Ms. Brunson)

Chi-Square practice problems

• Extra practice problems (you can use the problems in Lab #1 for practice as well)

• Extra practice problems ANSWER WALKTHROUGH

POWERPOINT: Ch. 23 (Evolution of Populations)

• READING QUIZ: Chapter 23

• Animation: Mechanisms of Evolution

• Hardy-Weinberg Practice Set 

  • Hardy-Weinberg Practice Set ANSWER KEY

  • Hardy-Weinberg Practice Set #22 Answer (Chi Square Q)

• Extra Hardy Weinberg Practice Online

Article: Resistance Readings

• READING QUIZ: Resistance Readings

Article: "Making of the Fittest" Selections (Only required to do reading 1-3)

• READING QUIZ: Making of the Fittest

Lab #2: Tuberculosis Lab (including data tables for cut and paste)

• http://www.genome.jp/tools/clustalw

• Translation tool: https://www.bioinformatics.org/sms2/translate.html 

• TB Variant Sequences (for copy and paste)

• Amino Acid Chart

• Block 3: TB Lab DATA SHARING

• Block 5: TB Lab DATA SHARING

• Block 7: TB Lab DATA SHARING

• Videos about TB:

  • Poverty and the rise of MDR TB in Peru

POWERPOINT: Ch. 22 (Antibiotic resistance)

• CDC Antibiotic Resistance Threat Report

• HBO's VICE: Post-Antibiotic World (first 11 min)

• Video: Evolution of antibiotic resistance (1:55)

Lab #3: Biochemical Evidence (Hemoglobin Evolution)

• ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

• Figure 1 for lab

• Silent No Longer article

First Quiz Ends Here

POWERPOINT: Ch. 24 (Speciation)

• READING QUIZ: Chapter 24

• Animation: Allopatric speciation Anole lizards (2:38)

• Animation: Speciation Mechanisms (Allopatric and Sympatric)

• Article about Polyploidy

LAB#4: Cladogram Construction

• Nova Labs - interesting (dare I say, fun?) cladogram construction activity

• Extra practice Analyzing Phylogenetic Trees

• Extra practice Analyzing Phylogenetic Trees ANSWER KEY

POWERPOINT: Ch. 25 (History of Earth and Endosymbiotic Theory)

• READING QUIZ: Chapter 25

• Animation: Redi and Pasteur Experiments (4:30)

• Animation: Miller-Urey Experiment (1:50)

• Animation: Endosymbiotic Theory

• Animation: RNA World (3:09)

POWERPOINT: Ch. 25 (Radiometric dating)

POWERPOINT: Ch. 26 (Systematics and Phylogeny)

• READING QUIZ: Chapter 26

POWERPOINT: Ch. 27/28 (Prokaryotes and Protists)

• READING QUIZ: Chapter 27-28

Cladogram practice on Khan academy

• NEW TRANSLATION TOOL: https://www.bioinformatics.org/sms2/translate.html 
  • https://biomodel.uah.es/en/lab/cybertory/analysis/trans.htm
  • http://161.111.160.230/index_v5.html
• http://exon.gatech.edu/genemark/genemarks.cgi