AP Biology with Mr. McGee

Unit 7: Natural Selection

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College Board Unit 7 Guide (from the CED)

Lessons

7.1 Introduction to Natural Selection

7.1 Class Lecture

7.1 Daily Video 1 - Introduction to Natural Selection

7.2 Natural Selection

7.2 Class Lecture

7.2 Daily Video 1 - Natural Selection

7.3 Artificial Selection

7.3 Class Lecture

7.3 Daily Video 1 - Artificial Selection

7.4 Population Genetics

7.4 Class Lecture

7.4 Daily Video 1 - Population Genetics

7.5 Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

7.5 Class Lecture

7.5 Daily Video 1 - Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

7.6 Evidence for Evolution

7.6 Class Lecture

7.6 Daily Video 1 - Evidence for Evolution

7.7 Common Ancestry of the Eukaryotes

7.7 Class Lecture

7.7 Daily Video 1 - Common Ancestry

7.8 Continuing Evolution

7.8 Class Lecture

7.8 Daily Video 1 - Continuing Evolution

7.9 Phylogeny

7.9 Class Lecture

7.9 Daily Video 1 - Phylogeny

7.10 Speciation

7.10 Class Lecture

7.10 Daily Video 1 - Speciation

7.11 Extinction - Not in the 2025 Update

7.11 Class Lecture

7.11 Daily Video 1 - Extinction

Now 7.11 Variations in Populations

7.12 Class Lecture

7.12 Daily Video 1 - Variation in Populations

Now 7.12 Origins of Life on Earth

7.13 Class Lecture

7.13 Daily Video 1 - Origins of Life on Earth

Labs and Exercises

Scientific Skill Exercise: Making and Testing Predictions

Scientific Skill Exercise: Using Protein Sequence Data to Test an Evolutionary Hypothesis

Scientific Skill Exercise: Using the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium to Interpret the Data

Scientific Skill Exercise: Does Distance Between Salamander Populations Increase Their Reproductive Isolation?

Scientific Skill Exercise: Do ecological factors affect evolutionary rates?

Scientific Inquiry: Mosquitoes and DDT; Honeypot Ants

Scientific Inquiry: Phylogenetic Trees; Manatees

Scientific Inquiry: Mytilus edulis in Long Island Sound; Evolution of Populations in a Kettle Lake

Scientific Inquiry: Speciation of Bread Wheat; Speciation in Strawberry Poison Dart Frogs

Scientific Inquiry: Herbivory and the adaptive radiation of insects; The effect of plate tectonics on evolutionary history

Exercise - Cladisticules

Exercise - Science Magazine Cladograms

Biointeractive - The Biology of Skin Color

Biointeractive - Beak of the Finch

Biointeractive - Allele and Phenotype Frequency in Rock Pocket Mouse Populations

Biointeractive - Molecular Genetics of Color Mutations in Rock Pocket Mice

Biointeractive - Key Allele and Phenotype Frequencies in Rock Pocket Mouse Populations

Lab - Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with Blast

Lab - Population Genetics and Evolution

Lab - Carolina™ Natural Selection for AP Biology (Brine Shrimp Lab)

Inquiry - Selection and Speciation

Inquiry - Phylogenetic Trees

Inquiry - The Hardy-Weinberg Equation

Inquiry - Mass Extinction

Article - Bird Taste Evolution

Article - A rooted phylogeny resolves early bacterial evolution

Article - Illuminating the first bacteria

Article - Evolutionary Genomics of Dog Domestication

Computer Model - Logistic Growth

Computer Model - Selection Coefficient and Evolution

Population Genetics Computer Simulation

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