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Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
- Standard Area - 3.1: Biological Sciences
- Organizing Category - 3.1.C: Evolution
- Course - 3.1.B.C: BIOLOGY
Standard - 3.1.B.C1
Describe species as reproductively distinct groups of organisms.
Analyze the role that geographic isolation can play in speciation.
Explain how evolution through natural selection can result in changes in biodiversity through the increase or decrease of genetic diversity within a population.
Describe how the degree of kinship between species can be inferred from the similarity in their DNA sequences.
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Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.3
Theory of Evolution
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.3.1
Explain the mechanisms of evolution.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.3.1.1 Explain how natural selection can impact allele frequencies of a population.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.3.1.2 Describe the factors that can contribute to the development of new species (e.g., isolating mechanisms, genetic drift, founder effect, migration).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.3.1.3 Explain how genetic mutations may result in genotypic and phenotypic variations within a population.
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.3.2
Analyze the sources of evidence for biological evolution.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.3.2.1 Interpret evidence supporting the theory of evolution (i.e., fossil, anatomical, physiological, embryological, biochemical, and universal genetic code).
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.3.3
Apply scientific thinking, processes, tools, and technologies in the study of evolution.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.3.3.1 Distinguish among the scientific terms: hypothesis, inference, law, theory, principle, fact, and observation.
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