Author: Judy Jones

Antibiotic Resistance

Explain how a population of bacteria evolves into a dangerous population that is resistant to a wide range of antibiotics.

Biochemical Evidence

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#2 VNFKLLSLCL
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#5 VNFRLLGHLL
Place the species on the cladogram showing their relatedness—#1 is done for you.

The amino acid sequences shown are for a small portion of hemoglobin in 5 different species.

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Origin of Life
Life

What was the nature of the early atmosphere according to current hypotheses?
Explain why scientists think the following cells evolved in the given order.?
1. Prokaryotic anaerobes
2. Prokaryotic photosynthesizers
3. Prokaryotic aerobes
4. Eukaryotes
What is the endosymbiotic hypothesis?

Information Organizer
Number Seven

Vocabulary

Index Fossil:
Relative Dating vs. Absolute Dating:
Adaptive Radiation:
Abiogenesis vs. Biogenesis:
Convergent Evolution:
Coevolution:
Punctuated Equilibrium:
Isolation:
Speciation:

Evidence for Evolution

How do each of the following provide evidence for evolution by natural selection?
Fossil Record:
Geographic Distribution of Living Species:
Homologous Body Structures:
Similarities in Embryology:
Similarities in DNA or RNA or Amino Acid Sequences:
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria or Pesticide Resistance in Insects:

History of Evolutionary Theory

What role did each of the following people have in the development of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Charles Darwin:
James Hutton:
Charles Lyell:
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck:
Thomas Malthus:
Alfred Russel Wallace:

Evolutionary Theory

Describe how the peppered moths changed their coloration over thousands of generations from early England through the Industrial Revolution. Be sure to use your “evolutionary language”. You should talk about populations, variation, the struggle to survive, selection by the environment, and reproduction. Also mention “allele frequencies.”