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Unit 10: Evolution

This is an example for an imageEssential Question 1: What is the role of natural selection in creating diversity in organisms?

Essential Question 2: What is the evidence that supports the modern theory of evolution?

Essential Question 3: How do organisms change over time?

 

Homework

 

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rational for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes,and we are their survival machines.

Richard Dawkins a British evolutionary biologist and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.

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CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVES

Initial Understanding

  • Explore Darwin’s observations and parallel his road to the discovery that life forms change over time.

Developing an Interpretation:

  • Uncover the lines of evidence that led Darwin and others to suggest evolutionary theory.

Making Connections:

  • Demonstrate that the process of natural selection has provided the tremendous diversity of life on earth.
  • Students will apply their knowledge of genetics to explain how alterations have taken place in living organisms to create diversity.

Taking a Critical Stance:

  • Theorize about how the first living organisms were formed and how the evolution of the first autotrophs affected the future of life on earth.