Standard
Individual organisms with certain traits in particular environments are more likely than others to survive and have offspring.
Benchmarks
Explain how the fossil record documents the appearance, diversification and extinction of many life forms.
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Use internal and external anatomical structures to compare and infer relationships between living organisms as well as those in the fossil record.
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Recognize that extinction is a common event and it can occur when the environment changes and a population's ability to adapt is insufficient to allow its survival.
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Essential Questions
Vocabulary
Selective Breeding: crossing of animals or plants that have desirable characteristics to produce offspring with desirable characteristics hybridization crossing of two genetically different but related species of an organism inbreeding breeding that involves crossing plants or animals that have the same or very similar sets of genes.
Biotechnology: is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields. Domesticated Animals: is an animal that can live with Humans. Varieties: any of various groups of plants or animals ranking below a species. Cultivated plants: plants that are grown for their produce. Populations: is all the organisms that both belong to the same species and live in the same geographical area. Communities: All the organisms living in a particular area or place: ecosystems a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving. |
fossil preserved remains of of ancient organisms sedimentary rock is a type of rock that is formed by sedimentation of material at the earth's surface and within bodies of water. fossil record was one of the early sources of data relevant to the study of evolution. adaptation heritable characteristic that increases an organisms ability to survive and reproduce in an environment homologous structure structures that are similar in different species of common ancestry natural selection process by which organisms that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully. extinction No longer existing or living variation Something slightly different from another of the same type population All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat traits A genetically determined characteristic or condition diversity Variety or multiformity
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Multiple intelligencesThe best way a student can express his/her knowledge
Musical: Visual-Spatial: Intrapersonal (self): Naturalistic: Logical/Mathematical: Verbal/Linguistic: Interpersonal (others): Bodily-Kinesthetic: (more information on multiple intelligences here) |
Learning StylesDifferent ways to approach learning for students
Auditory: Visual: Kinesthetic: Special needsReading Disability:
Math Disability: Emotional/Behavioral: Cognitive Lags: Physical Impairments: |