Topic 5: Evolution and Diversity

Outline how fossil records provide evidence for evolution.

What is the difference between adaptive and gradual divergence?

What are all the possible causes of speciation?

Explain the peppered moth evolution.

How do homologous structures support evolution?

Explain how there is variation in the population and how it leads to overproduction.

What is the impact of natural selection on evolution?

Explain how antibiotic resistance in bacteria leads to its own evolution.

Know all the phyla, including their traits and examples.

What is the difference between the three domains?

Define analogous and homologous traits.

Using a cladogram, identify species that are closely related.