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//Enduring Knowledge/Global Goals in Italics: Students will understand// // … // (Assessed with Performance tasks and projects) important for students to understand and remember in the far future Educational Objectives/Foundational Knowledge: Students will be able to … (Assessed with traditional quizzes and tests) important for students to understand and remember in the near future Chapter 8: Natural Selection //The mechanisms of natural selection, and how an adaptation could be the result of other forces besides natural selection.// Restate the parts of natural selection Explain how deviations from Hardy Weinberg percentages can be explained. Describe how genetic drift can lead to forms not selected for. Distinguish between genotype and phenotype. Distinguish between stabilizing, directional, and disruptive selection and give an example of each. Define evolution and describe the role that natural selection and heritability play in evolution. Describe inbreeding depression and predict two consequences of populations experiencing a depression. Chapter 9: Population Distribution and Abundance //The different population patterns and how those patterns might be created by natural history components.// Identify patterns of random, regular/uniform, clumped. Discuss relationship of patterns and scale (how they change and may be an artifact of scale). Define density. Describe the relationship between organism size and population density and extinction Chapter 10: Population Dynamics Distinguish difference between dispersal and migration. Generalize on patterns of metapopulations within a larger population: source/sink. Construct a life table. Recognize the three survivorship curves and predict natural history components. Interpret an age structure diagram. Calculate net reproductive rate Chapter 11: Population Growth Distinguish between logistic and exponential growth. Describe conditions you would find logistic and exponential growth. Define carrying capacity and list 3 contributing factors for carrying capacity, Given equation for logistic growth, explain prediction for when K increases. Describe density-dependent and independent factors for population growth and identify examples of each. Chapter 12: Life Histories //Important life history components for most organisms and how knowing the values of these components can affect decisions in conservation// Discuss trade-off between offspring size and number. Relate survival rates of adults to natural history components such as reproductive age and proportion of energy allotted to reproduction. Distinguish between r vs. K strategies and explain the origin of their terms. Match Grimes four environments based on two factors (stress and disturbance) to plant strategies for dealing with those environments. Identify the three axes for Winemiller graph (fecundity, survivorship, and age of maturation) and the three endpoints (opportunistic, equilibrium and periodic) and interpret what two different shapes would tell you. Compare and contrast the three life history models (r vs. K, Grimes, Winemiller and Rose, and Charnov). Life history for conservation Numerical responses with Functional responses Natural and sexual selection Students will feel comfortable dissecting an equation and asking about the biological significance of different components.
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