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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.A: Organisms and Cells
- Course - 3.1.B.A: BIOLOGY
Standard - 3.1.B.A9
- Compare and contrast scientific theories.
- Know that both direct and indirect observations are used by scientists to study the natural world and universe.
- Identify questions and concepts that guide scientific investigations.
- Formulate and revise explanations and models using logic and evidence.
- Recognize and analyze alternative explanations and models.
- Explain the importance of accuracy and precision in making valid measurements.
- Examine the status of existing theories.
- Evaluate experimental information for relevance and adherence to science processes.
- Judge that conclusions are consistent and logical with experimental conditions.
- Interpret results of experimental research to predict new information, propose additional investigable questions, or advance a solution.
- Communicate and defend a scientific argument.
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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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