Given information about living or extinct organisms, cite evidence to explain the frequency of inherited characteristics of organisms in a population, OR explain the evolution of varied structures (with defined functions) that affected the organisms’ survival in a specific environment (e.g., giraffe, wind pollination of flowers).
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2007-05-10 07:31:17
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illustrating that when an environment changes, the survival advantage/disadvantage of some characteristics may change.
Rhode Island DOE
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2009-10-10 20:28:49
distinguish between microevolution (on small scale within a single population – e.g., change in gene frequency within a population) and macroevolution (on a scale that transcends boundaries of a single species – e.g., diversity of all beetle species within the order of insects) and explain how macroevolution accounts for speciation and extinction.
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2009-10-10 20:29:15
recognizing patterns in molecular and fossil evidence, to provide a scientific explanation for Natural Selection and its evolutionary consequences (e.g. survival, adaptation).
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2009-10-10 20:30:20
using data or models (charts, diagrams, table, narratives etc.) to analyze how organisms are organized into a hierarchy of groups and subgroups based on evolutionary relationships. (e.g. creating a taxonomic key to organize a given set of examples).
Rhode Island DOE
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2007-05-31 17:19:22
explain punctuated equilibrium as a model of evolution and contrast it with a more gradual model of evolution.
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2012-05-12 11:20:01