Evolution Unit Comprehensive Assessment

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• Evolution Unit Comprehensive Assessment: Questions
• Evolution Unit Comprehensive Assessment: Answer Document

Assessment Teams

Period 1


Team 1

Giovanny Rubalcava

Sydney Buerk

Lucas Sicat

Stacy Ramirez Valencia


Team 2

Alyssa Hernandez

Bradley Distor

Juliana Camberos

Omar Villalobos Rodriguez

Marlynn Wilson White


Team 3

Andres Contreras

Carlos Bolanos

Eva Carrejo

Michael Dambacher Ewers


Team 4

Jonathan Ambriz-Gonzalez

Yoselyn Raigoza Lopez

Seth Ondo

Job Trujillo


Team 5

Jennifer Garcia Ruiz

Jayden Hein

Guillermo Aguirre

Kianna Stocks

Abraham Nguyen


Team 6

Jianna Lunares

Aztlan Gonzalez Rodriguez

Gurjot Kaur

Jovanni Chavez


Team 7

Maria Molina Martinez

Mila Markovich

Allan Cardenas

Salvador Sanchez



Period 2


Team 1

Evan Itow

Clare Robke

Izabella Harris

Lucas Tuan


Team 2

Colin Sims

Joshua Jauregui

Naomi Diaz

Lucas Baginski Doar

Jake Groll


Team 3

Hailey Kieslich

Lauren Shearer

Colin McCombs

Alison Ordentlich


Team 4

Ellie Schomberg

Ashley Tamura

Hope Vela

Enzo Teddy


Team 5

Cole Miller

John Burkhart

Dasha Yeremin

Charles Dunn


Team 6

Karishma Miranda

Amanda Ornelas

Will Peltz

Jesse Zalk

Kevin West


Team 7

Jonathan Nguyen

Yotam Nahir Konigstein

Matthew Guerrero

Thomas Callahan


Team 8

Stephanie Wright

Pierce Howard

Leeza Yeremin

Abigale Weimer



Period 3


Team 1

Katie Sosa Quijada

Jordany Hermosillo

Morgan Fernandez

Nataly Perez Hernandez


Team 2

Andrew Vierra

Christian De Jesus

Daniel Tellez

My Hanh Nguyen

Kate Wong


Team 3

Javier Borja

Staffny Mehmi

Triana Armijo

Jorge Millan-Grijalva


Team 4

Xochitl Garcia

Georgia Richards

Keoni Bacelis

Benjamin Godinez Ramirez


Team 5

Andreas Valdez

Roxana Gonzalez

Gurpartap Singh

Nikol Stodulka


Team 6

Jimena Rojas Sanchez

Sheccid Diaz Lara

Julizza Pineda Torres

Jason Godinez Frausto


Team 7

Erick Ramirez

Duke Dekowski

Sha'Niyah Shaw

Sima Nehchiri

Brandon Aceves Macias



Period 5


Team 1

Vanessa Anaya Martinez

Cristian Llamas

Zaniyah Thomas

Brandy Camberos Aguirre

Vader Nieto


Team 2

Julia Clowers

Luis Contreras Barajas

Jordan De Jesus

Bobby Davidson


Team 3

Chase Kerchner

Carson Thompson

Jose Reyes Cortes

Natalie Diaz


Team 4

Katherine Lloyd

Santiago Gomez

McKellen Darragh

Addison Hodge


Team 5

Victoria Marroquin

Hingano Hautau

Tianna Tinoco

Cooper Dimiceli

Edwin Munoz Barreras


Team 6

Hugo Waterfall

Israel Padilla

Angel Chavez

Kevin Torres Garcia


Team 7

Leslie Arguello Tuz

Christ Martinez

Mariana Ponce Candia

Diana Sarmiento


Team 8

Alison Camacho Serna

Christian Aguilar Castaneda

Daniella O'Keefe

Emily Maggi

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Evolution Unit Comprehensive Assessment Questions

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Evolution Unit Comprehensive Assessment Questions



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Evolution Unit Comprehensive Assessment Questions



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EVOLUTION WEB QUEST, for Monday, 3/18

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BIOLOGY: EVOLUTION WEB QUEST
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- Take out any headphones you may have--you’ll need them for the videos you are going to watch

- All answers you compose should be added to a new Google Doc in your Google Drive "Biology" folder

- Answer the following question after watching the video below: How did life on earth probably begin? Write a three to five-sentence paragraph to answer this question.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/origins-life.html

- Now, go to the main Evolution page on NOVA's website:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/

Choose a category--video, article, interview, interactive, or anything else in the list that looks interesting--and open it. After sampling a few items, watch, listen or play the one that seems the most interesting and go all the way through it. Write a summary of what you learned in a 5 to 8-sentence paragraph.



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HONORS BIOLOGY: EVOLUTION WEB QUEST
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- Take out any headphones you may have--you’ll need them for the videos you are going to watch

- All answers you compose should be added to a new Google Doc in your Google Drive "Biology" folder

- Answer the following question after watching the video below: How did life on earth probably begin? Write a three to five-sentence paragraph to answer this question.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/origins-life.html

- Now, go to the main Evolution page on NOVA's website:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/

Choose a category--video, article, interview, interactive, or anything else in the list that looks interesting--and open it. After sampling a few items, watch, listen or play the two that seem the most interesting and go all the way through it. Write a summary of what you learned from EACH item (video, interview, article, etc.) in two separate 6 to 8-sentence paragraphs.


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Origins of Life on Earth Timeline Assignment

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Origins of Life on Earth Timeline Assignment



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NOTES: Evolution

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• Introduction to Evolution
• Natural Selection, Genetic Drift, and Speciation
• Fossils and Fossil Formation

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Who Wants to Live a Million Years: A Natural Selection Simulation Game

Today you will be putting into practice some of the ideas we have been discussing with regards to biological evolution and natural selection.


Directions

1. Open the Who Wants to Live A Million Years flash-based natural selection simulation game at http://coolsciencelab.com/who_wants_to_live_a_million_years.htm.
2. Click the "Learn about Natural Selection" button to read about Charles Darwin's breakthrough idea on the basic mechanism of evolution.
3. Read the questions below and keep them in mind as you play the game.
4. Follow the instructions given in the game and play at least 20 times.
5. Take the quiz at some point after you have played at least 20 times, then show your results to the teacher.
6. Now, in a Google Document placed in your biology turn-in folder, respond to the questions below about the natural selection game. Review your answers with at least two other people in class. Use their feedback to improve the accuracy and quality of your responses. The title and file name of your document should be "Who Wants to Live a Million Years: Analysis of a Natural Selection Simulation"

Questions

1. How many generations did it take for you to finally win a game? Why do you think it took this long? What do you think this means/suggests for most real species on Earth in terms of their species's chances of long-term survival?
2. Which initial phenotypes/phenotype combinations did you select and why?Which starting/initial combinations seemed to allow you to continue/survive the longest (win the most games)? Why do you think this was so?
3. Do you think this population of theoretical creatures would be greatly affected by genetic drift? What evidence of drift did you see as you played the game (simulation)?
4. Which alleles/phenotypes seemed to be dominant and which seemed to be recessive? How could you tell?
5. Match the environments/situations/conditions below with their corresponding adaptations:
   (a) cold conditions; (b) hot conditions; (c) new large predator on the scene; (d) new tall food source
6. How would you improve this simulation to more realistically represent natural selection and biological evolution? Discuss at least three improvements.

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Evolutionary Origins of Diabetes

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http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/140204_diabetes

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