Goals+for+Evolution+unit+based+on+State+and+National+Standards


 * 1) Students will use an understanding of natural selection and sexual selection to explain and predict change in species when looking at evidence from the distant and recent past.
 * //Students know why natural selection acts on the phenotype rather than the genotype of an organism . (CASS Life Science 7.a) //
 * //Students know how natural selection determines the differential survival of groups of organisms. (CASS Life Science 8.a) //
 * 1) Students will explain common ancestry of all organisms based on fossil, molecular, biogeographic, and other evidence.
 * //Students know how to analyze fossil evidence with regard to biological diversity, episodic speciation, and mass extinction. (CASS Life Science 8.e) //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students know how to use comparative embryology, DNA or protein sequence comparisons, and other independent sources of data to create a branching diagram (cladogram) that shows probable evolutionary relationships. (CASS Life Science 8.f) * //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students know how several independent molecular clocks, calibrated against each other and combined with evidence from the fossil record, can help to estimate how long ago various groups of organisms diverged evolutionarily from one another. (CASS Life Science 8.g)* //
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students will explain the basis for phenotypic and genotypic variation within both eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students know why alleles that are lethal in a homozygous individual may be carried in a heterozygote and thus maintained in a gene pool. (CASS Life Science 7.b) //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students know a great diversity of species increases the chance that at least some organisms survive major changes in the environment. (CASS Life Science 8.b) //
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students will understand the concept of a gene pool for a species and recognize evolution as a shifting of gene frequencies.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students know new mutations are constantly being generated in a gene pool. (CASS Life Science 7.c) //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students know variation within a species increases the likelihood that at least some members of a species will survive under changed environmental conditions. (CASS Life Science 7.d) //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students know the conditions for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in a population and why these conditions are not likely to appear in nature. (CASS Life Science 7.e)* //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students know how to solve the Hardy-Weinberg equations to predict the frequency of genotypes in a population, given the frequency of phenotypes. (CASS Life Science 7.f)* //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students know the effects of genetic drift on the diversity of organisms in a population. (CASS Life Science 8.c) //


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students will understand and explain methods or models for speciation and extinction of a species including mass extinctions.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students know reproductive or geographic isolation affects speciation. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(CASS Life Science 8.d)  //