Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
HS-LS4.A
Expii topics
- Family Trees and Pedigrees
- What Is a Pedigree?
- Analyzing Pedigrees to Deduce Genotypes
- Problems with Consanguinous Mating
- Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
- Definition of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
- Conditions for Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
- Calculating Allele Frequency from Phenotype Frequency
- Gene Pool
- What Is a Population?
- Gene Pool of a Population
- Allele Frequencies
- Evolution Alters Allele Frequencies
- Species Definition
- Phylogenetic Trees
- Classifying Animals
- Origin of Animals
- Animal Tree of Life
- Dinosaurs
- Characteristics of Reptiles and Birds: Thermoregulation
- Birds
- Turtles
- Lizards and Snakes
- Crocodiles
- Fish
- Ray-Finned Fishes
- Mammals
- Monotremes
- Marsupials
- Placental Mammals
- Characteristics of Rodents
- Monkeys and Apes
- Placental Mammals: Carnivores
- Marine Mammals
- Hoofed Mammals
- Mammalian Reproductive Strategy: Estrous vs. Menstrual Cycle
- Basal Animals
- Echinoderms
- Precursors of Plants
- Early Vascular Plants
- Monocots
- Dicots
- Balancing Selection: Advantage of Genetic Diversity
- Balancing Selection: Neutral Variation
- Genetic Drift
- Genetic Drift and the Bottleneck Effect
- Founder Effect
- What Is Genetic and Phenotypic Diversity?
- Quantifying Diversity
- Mutation as a Fundamental Source of Diversity
- Gene Flow
- Evolution Within an Organism (Somatic Mutation)
- Outcomes of Evolution
- Evolution and Development
- Extinction
- What Is Extinction?
- Causes of Mass Extinction
- Causes of Extinction
- Speciation (Lineage Splitting)
- Causes of Speciation
- Sympatric Speciation
- What Is a Species?
- Intro to Genetics
- Living Things Evolve
- Living Things Evolve: Diversity in a Population
- Diversity of Animal Skeletal Systems
- Relative and Absolute Dating
- Relative Dating
- Radiometric Dating
- Absolute Dating: Half-Life
- Radiocarbon Dating
- Absolute Dating