Honors Bio Unit 3 Evolution Review Sheet

P. AP. EVO 3.2 a-d Describe how environmental selective pressures influence an organism's fitness and explain how these pressures can lead to shifts in phenotypic and allele frequencies.

Macro vs. micro evolution

Natural selection

Fitness 

Adaptation

Genetic & phenotypic variation

Gene pool

Directional/disruptive/stabilizing selection

Gene/allele frequency

5 mechanisms of microevolution

Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (when a population is not evolving/changing… you do not need to memorize the formula, but should be able to use it)

Students should be able to describe/predict how selective pressures can affect a population of organisms over time.  

P.AP.EVO 3.3 a+b, 3.4 a-c 

Explain how geographic separation events contribute to the formation of new species and describe the mechanisms of reproductive separation that facilitate speciation. 

Species

Speciation

Isolation (geographic, reproductive, etc.)

Divergent evolution

Adaptive radiation

Convergent evolution

Coevolution

P. AP. EVO 3.1 a+b. Classifying Evolutionary Relationships: Create or utilize phylogenetic trees to illustrate evolutionary relationships among species. 

Taxonomy

Binomial nomenclature

Phylogenetic tree

Common ancestor

Shared traits

Students should be able to interpret or make a simple phylogenetic tree.