The study of evolution is crucial for understanding how organisms change over time and recognizing the diversity among species. Central to this is the concept of adaptation, where organisms evolve to better fit their environments, often influenced by factors like natural selection and genetic drift.
Evolution. It's important to know how organism change over time and recognize the diversity between species.
Microevolution
Change in allele
Macroevolution
+Time
Evolution doesn't occur in a short amount of time but rather over thousands of years. It's important for students to know the time period of a species changing and gaining new traits/functions.
Genetic drift
Important for students to connect this idea of species separating due to random chance and environment especially when looking at closely related species. They could also bring up information that they learned from geography class.
Gene flow
Student's need to know that genes are passed on to the next generation. it ties back to the "survival of the fittest" theory that Darwin brings up.
Mutation
Change
New Species
Population Genetics
Allele Frequency
Genotype is the back bone of how organisms will act and look. It's important to tie back to their understand of DNA when mentioning this topic as it is the
Phenotype is important to note that it varies depending on the genes and how it shows on the individuals
Gene Pool
Gene Flow: create genetic diversity
Hardy-Weinberg populations allele frequency and genotype remains constant when put in a constant environment.(When there is no change)
Misconceptions
Species choose to evolve, rather than due to the fact of environmental factors and successful reproduction.
Natural selection is an all-powerful force and it produces perfection. Many students also
Evolution as a grand progressive ladder vs evolution as a tree.
Impact on Society/Technology
Provides a solid scientific framework for understanding the emergence of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria and for analyzing the emergence and epidemiology of novel diseases, such as HIV.
Advances in developmental morphology
Initiatives to deepen knowledge of the genetic basis of complex characters.
BioDiversity
Two Types of Cells: Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes. Important for when learning about their reproduction.
Taxonomy: important to know what categories organisms are put under and how they are all connected.
six kingdoms
Darwins Theory
It's important to know about the history of Charles Darwin and how widely accepted his theory of Natural Selection as it is a concrete basic concept that stemmed the foundations of evolution and the idea of evolving from a common ancestor.
Galapagoes island
Finches it introduced the topic of change over time and a rise of new species.
Main topic
Natural Selection
"Survival of the fittest." Species are only considered fit if they have adapted to live long enough to produce strong and viable offspring to pass on their genes to the next generation.
It causes new species to occur and creates more diveristy
Is important because a organism changes to best suit their environment and due to random chance.