Post a minimum of 10 general questions about the topics in your study guide. For example, "What are the similarities and differences between natural selection and artificial selection?"
Prior to the presentation, write in the space below what you believe makes a species. In other words, what makes two organisms the same species or different species?
After watching the "Clearly Stated" Video, answer the following questions.
1. What is common descent? What causes it? 2. What is descent with modification, and what caused it? 3. Explain the process of Natural Selection and explain how it was discovered. 4. Why did the tortoises on the Galapagos Islands look so different. 5. NOT IN THE VIDEO - What do you think is the difference between natural and artificial selection? BEFORE VIEWING VIDEO
What do you know about evolution? How did humans come into existence? Write down everything you know/believe. DURING/AFTER VIEWING VIDEO 1. State 3 thing you already knew 2. State 2 things you learned 3. State1 thing that shocked/surprised you. 4. Define Evolution & explain it in your own words. Answer these questions before the lesson and correct/add to your answers at the end of class.
1. Are all of our traits inherited following Mendel's pattern of inheritance? 2. Which human traits that you know of are inherited in this manner? 2. What other patterns of inheritance are there? Explain as many as you can. 3. What traits are inherited using these different patterns? Based on the video you saw, the case studies we read and the lesson we had today, explain why Gregor Mendel is considered the Father of Modern Genetics. Provide AT LEAST three (3) reasons.
Watch the video on Heredity and answer the following questions:
1. State 3 things that you learned 2. State 2 things that you already knew 3. State 1 thing that surprised you. Watch the CrashCourse Meiosis video and provide the following information:
- 3 things you learned - 2 things you already knew - 1 question you still have. Once you have posted your response, look at other students' posts and try to answer one person's "question I still have". After watching the CrashCourse video, state:
3 things you already knew 2 things you learned 1 question you still have. What is the purpose of mitosis? What TYPE of eukaryotic animal cells undergo mitosis? Using the diagram above for support, explain what happens in the cell cycle of a eukaryotic organism. Are there any cells that do not go through this cycle? If so, which ones?
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