1. Evolution unit Test Outline

2. Topics What is a theory? What is needed for validity of a theory?
What are the three types of mutations? What role do they play in evolution?
What is artificial selection? What are the benefits and limitations?
What contributions did the following make to evolution: Lamarck, Lyell, Buffon, Darwin, Cuvier.
What took place on the voyage of the HMS Beagle?
What are homologous, analogous and vestigial features?

3. Topics What is natural selection?
What are Darwin’s 5 points of NS? Be able to apply.
Review note on Modern Theory of Evolution.

4. topics
Types of Natural Selection: directional, stabilizing, disruptive, sexual. Know how to interpret graphs.
What is genetic drift? What impact does bottleneck and founder effect have on gene frequency and evolution? What is the Hardy-Weinberg principle?
What is the human influence on evolution?
What is the difference between micro and macro evolution?
What is speciation? What is the difference between allopatric and sympatric speciation?

5. topics What are the various reproductive isolating mechanisms?
Describe and identify the patterns of evolution: adaptive radiation, divergent, convergent, coevolution. Understand examples.
What is the difference between the theories of gradualism and punctuated equilibrium? What evidence supports both theories?
Be able to create branching diagrams and derived trait charts.
Review the handout on human evolution.