Notebooks will also be collected then.
Week 10-11 Notebook Contents
1.How Life Begins
2. Homework: Read 447-449 and 454-460. Answer questions: 1-3 on p449 and 1-4, 6 on p459
3. Evolutionary Timeline
4. Evolution Review - Homework due Wednesday
This is the review information that I provided them on Monday.
Evolution Unit Review
Unit Test: Friday April 27
Goals:
- · Describe historical development of the theory of evolution (multiple choice questions strongly related to this goal – 4)
- · Describe common patterns of evolution (8)
- · Describe key characteristics of evolution by natural selection (8)
- · Create a phylogenic tree for hominids (3)
- · Describe major changes that occurred in hominid evolution (4, including chromosomal changes)
- · Identify human hominid ancestors and locate them in our phylogeny (3)
- · Describe scientific theories about how the molecules necessary for life and the first cells developed. (2)
- · Identify and place in chronological order major developments during the Precambrian era, including prokaryotes, the atmosphere and simple eukaryotes. (4)
- · Identify and place in order the dominant organisms during Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. (0)
- · Know and correctly use the vocabulary of the unit. (8, lots of overlap with other questions)
Sections to read
from the Textbook
Chapter 16
(almost all of it is important), Chapter 17 (some of it, mostly in sec.
17.2), Chapter 19 (lost of important stuff),
and finally Section 32-3.
Extended Answer
Questions
Three of the following extended
answer questions will be on the test. As on previous tests, you will be expected to
write a short paragraph response which will be graded on clarity, accuracy,
relevance and completeness.
- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria show powerful evidence for ongoing evolution. Describe how bacteria are developing this resistance and what may be done about it.
- Choose four traits that have shown notable change during the evolution of hominids. Describe the nature of these changes and speculate on what selection process could have caused them to develop
- Many events occurred in the first two billion years of the Earth’s existence. Choose four of the most important of them. List them in order and explain why you considered these to be on the most-important list.
- Darwin developed his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection with no knowledge of chromosomes, DNA, or the mechanisms of genetics. Explain how genetics fleshed out Darwin’s theory and how evolution works on the level of DNA.
- Many lines of thinking and personal experience helped Darwin develop his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. Chose both an experience from Darwin’s life and a prominent scientific, social or economic theory from Darwin’s time that influenced him. Describe the event and how it influenced him, then name and describe the theory and how it influenced him.
- Describe the four key elements for Evolution by Natural Selection that we identified in class. Use an example of evolution to show how they work together.
- Darwin and Lamarck had differing views on how evolution worked. Describe the key differences of the theories and who proposed which view.
- In class, we examined the evidence for human evolution by looking at skull replicas and at chromosome representations. Describe how each showed evidence for human evolution. Which form of evidence was most convincing for you? Explain why.
