Mike Machowek
Applied Biology/Natural
Resources I Lesson Plans
March 24-28
Monday
Posters-due Friday
Hatcheries reading
Tuesday
Discuss Natural Selection Natural selection is the process by which favorable heritable traits
become more common in successive generations
of a population of reproducing organisms, and unfavorable heritable traits become less
common. Natural selection acts on the phenotype, or
the observable characteristics of an organism, such that individuals with
favorable phenotypes are more likely to survive and reproduce than those with less favorable
phenotypes. If these phenotypes have a genetic basis,
then the genotype
associated with the favorable phenotype will increase in frequency
in the next generation. Over time, this process can result in adaptations
that specialize organisms for particular ecological
niches and may eventually result in the emergence of
new species.-
Divergent Evolution
Homologous
structures/vestigal structures
Cladistics lab
Natural Selection
lab
Wednesday
AquaLab project
Thursday
AquaLab Projects
Friday
Natural Selection
Lab continued