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Starter

Describe how fossils pertain to evolution

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Application/Connection/Exit:

Graphic Organizer with questions

Evidence of Fossils

Practice: Notes-write your own notes

1 Starter2. Notes 3. ActivityFebruary 13 2015

AGENDA B. F

Students analyze and evaluate the effects of other

evolutionary mechanisms while reading and writing by

completing an activity.

Date Lecture/ Activity/ Lab Page2/12 Ordering Fossils Activity 161-1622/13 Evidence of Fossils 163-164

Table of Contents

Exploring Evidence of Evolution

February 20, 2013

Which features of DNA is most important in determining the

phenotype of an organism?

A Particular strand of DNA has the base sequence ATT-CCG. What is the base sequence of the complementary strand?

Why will knowledge of the human genome enable scientist to better understand proteins involved in human diseases?

a. DNA contains the information used to make proteins.b. Nucleic acid molecules have shapes similar to those proteinsc. The bases that make up DNA are also present in RNAd. Chromosomes can combine to form proteins

Exploring Evidence of Evolution: Starter

The sequence of nitrogenous bases

TAA-GGC

What is a fossil? The remains or

impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock

Practice

Fossils provide

evidence that life on Earth has changed as well as evidence about how that change has occurred. They also provide evidence of common ancestry among organisms.

Fossils and Evolution

Radiometric

dating tells us how old fossils are and where they fit in Earth’s timeline. Radiometric dating also gives us the relative age of the Earth.

Fossils and Radiometric Dating

The study of how species

are scattered across the planet and our understanding of plate tectonics provide us with evidence that evolution and natural selection have been shaping life on Earth for millions of years

Evolution and Biogeography

Examples of homologies (such as

the claws of Hoatzin chicks and eggs of platypus) give us examples of intermediate organisms (organisms that have features similar to two totally separate groups of organisms).

Organisms that have features homologous to the features of other living organisms, as well as to fossils, provide evidence that organisms living today are linked to each other through common ancestors

Evolution and Homologies

Instructions Fill in the graphic organizer on your handout by clicking

through the next slide. Each topic (textbox) in the graphic organizer is

hyperlinked to a webpage that gives you information and explanations about that topic.

In slide show view, move the mouse over the topic and click. This will take you to the linked webpage.

Analyze and evaluate the information on each webpage. Use that information to answer the questions on your

student handout. Although all answers can be found within the

information on the linked web pages, other web resources may be used if needed.

Chronology in Fossil Record

Homologies

Evidence of Common Ancestry

Fossils

Transitional Forms

Pace of Evolution

Gradual Punctuated

Anatomical Molecular

Genetic

Cellular

Endo-symbiosis

Develop-mental

Embryo-logical

Vestigial Structures

Biogeography

Distribution of Living Things

Plate Tec-

tonics

2/13/15

Starter

Describe how fossils pertain to evolution

2/13/15

163 164Evidence of Fossils

Application/Connection/Exit:

Graphic Organizer with questions

Evidence of Fossils

Practice: Notes-write your own notes

Think back to one of the many topics we’ve

discussed in class so far this year. (Evolution, Cells, DNA, Ecology…) Write about the one you remember the most and a profession in which you would use this knowledge.

Must be one page.

Exit: Writing Prompt 2