Wolf Wars Article

Below is a link that will allow you to download/view a PDF of the article Wolf Wars from National Geographic.  This article should be very useful when it comes to writing your conservation proposal this week:

Wolf Wars

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What Darwin Never Knew

Viruses, Bacteria, and Evolution

Watch the flu video and answer the questions below:

1. How does variation in influenza arise?
2. How does this variation increase the chances of a flu population’s survival in changing environments?  

Read the article on bacteria resistance and answer the questions below:


Bacteria Reading

1. On the cellular level, how do antibiotics work to stop the growth of bacteria?

2. What are some ways that bacteria work to stop the effectiveness of antibiotics?

3. Since bacteria reproduce asexually, how do they diversify their gene pool?

4. What are some ways that we contribute to the ineffectiveness of antibiotics?

5. How does this all tie in with what we’ve talking about in class (evolution, natural selection, survival of the fittest, etc.)?

Cheetah Speed

How are cheetahs adapted for speed?

Click on the cheetah survival link and read to find out what the "bottleneck" problem is for the cheetah.

Cheetah Survival

Lamarke vs. Darwin Two Theories of Change

I think you will find the following links useful in answering the writing prompts.  The assignment is due Friday 9/13.

Evolution writing prompt!

Respond to the following writing prompts.   Be sure to include supporting details.  Be specific.  You need to write between a half a page and a page to answer this.  You may use the textbook CH 4 and/or the internet as a resource. 

1.     Who would have agreed with the following statement? “Elephants stretched their noses and passed on the long nose trait until their descendants had a long nose called a trunk.”

2.     Who would have agreed with the following statement?  “Elephants with longer noses were able to survive and have more offspring than elephants with shorter noses.”

3.     Who would have agreed with the following statement?  “Elephants’ noses have changed over time.”

4.     Compare and Contrast Lamarke’s Theory and Darwin’s Theory

Links:

Lamarke:

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/history_09

http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/lamarck/lamarck/lamarck_lamarck.html

Darwin:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/course/session2/explain_c_pop2.html

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/history_14

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/10-examples-natural-selection.htm

Whale Kiosk - Evolution of Whales

Follow the link below:

http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/whalekiosk.html

Great Transformations EP2

This is a 6 part episode featuring whales and other animals and how they changed over time.  Feel free to watch again.  Enjoy!

Mitosis in a Newt Lung Cell

See how it works on Cells Alive!