13.3-13.10 Objectives

You should:
1. Describe two examples of natural selection known to occur in nature. Note three key points about how natural selection works.

2. Explain how fossils form

3. Explain how the fossil record provides some of the strongest evidence of evolution.

4. Explain how biogeography, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, and molecular biology support evolution.

5. Explain how evolutionary trees are constructed and used to represent ancestral relationships.

6. Define the gene pool, a population, and microevolution.

7. Explain how mutation and sexual recombination produce genetic variation.

8. Explain why prokaryotes can evolve more quickly than eukaryotes.

9. Describe the five conditions required for the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

10. Explain the significance of the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium to natural populations and to public health science.

Make sure you know the following definitions:
Adaptaion
Artificial Selection
Biogeography
Evolution
Extinction
Fitness
Fossil Record
Fossils
Homologous Structures
Vestigial Organs/Structures
Natural Selection
Population
Gene Pool
Species