Evolution Connections Map Guiding Questions

With your partner, talk about the answers to the following questions. On your connections map,
show me the answers to the questions by drawing and labeling arrows, defining terms, giving
examples, drawing pictures, etc.

1. How are evolution and natural selection related?

2. What are the four parts of natural selection?
3. What is required for natural selection to occur?
4. What causes variation?
5. How do mutations affect protein synthesis?
6. What type of mutations (in what part of the gene) most commonly lead to
adaptations?
7. How do adaptations relate to an organisms fitness?
8. Which of the 3 requirements of natural selection does selective pressure fit into?
9. What are the misconceptions about evolution?
10. Why are each of the misconceptions wrong?
11. What evidence do we have that supports the theory of evolution?
12. What patterns do we see in how populations change or evolve? (Hint: There are two
patterns we learned about.)
13. What types of evidence support each of the two patterns mentioned above?
14. How does evolution explain the origin of species? (What is a species? How do the
patterns mentioned above relate to speciation?)
15. How does each type of evidence for evolution support the idea of change over time?
16. How do selective pressures cause the two patterns of evolution?
17. What are examples of selective pressures?
18. What is a cladogram? How does it use evidence to show evolution?