U7: Natural Selection

13-20% of Exam

You’ll learn about Darwin’s theory, the concept of natural selection and evolution

Topics may Include

• Evidential support for evolution and common ancestry

• The mechanisms of natural selection and speciation

• Enviromental and human caused factors in evolution

• Charting species ancestry through phylogentic trees and cladograms

• Extinction

• Models of the origin of life on Earth

Topics of the Exam

• 7.1: Introduction to Natural Selection

• 7.2: Natural Selection

• 7.3 Artifical Selection

• 7.4: Population Genetics

• 7.5: Hardy-Weinberg Equallibrium

• 7.6 Evidence of Evolution

• 7.7: Common Ancestory

• 7.8 Continuing Evolution

• 7.9 Phylogeny

• 7.10: Speciation

• 7.11: Extinction

• 7.12: Variations in Population

• 7.13: Origins on Earth