https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz en-us 2017-05-19 13:25:33 UTC 2017-05-19 13:55:44 UTC hello@padlet.com sydmacnett https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172799357 Every living thing is always evolving in some way. Things like doctors adapting to radiation to pocket moths on trees, everything is always adapting to better survive their environment. This can also be known as "survival of the fittest." Populations show variations for almost every trait. Certain variations will improve an organism's survivor-ship and if the trait is heritable, the frequency will increase with each generation. I believe that this is the most important because the phrase "survival of the fittest" has been used in our day to day lives. I won't forget that. ]]> 2017-05-19 13:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172799357 sydmacnett https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172799976 Natural Selection: The process by which random evolutionary changes are selected by nature in a consistent, orderly, non-random way. New traits are produced through descent with modification OR Mechanism for change in population with favorable variations for a particular trait that helps an organism survive in a certain environment.]]> 2017-05-19 13:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172799976 sydmacnett https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172800133 Descent with Modification: When parents have offspring, they look and behave slightly different than their parents because of random genetic mutations. Traits in species will vary in different areas to adapt to their surroundings. This shows that no matter what the organism is, the offspring will never look exactly like their parents. For example, we do not look exactly like our parents, which is an easy way to remember descent with modification. This is in the middle because it is also equally important as natural selection (#2) and common descent (#4).]]> 2017-05-19 13:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172800133 sydmacnett https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172800286 Common Descent: The idea that all living things are related and are descended from a common ancestor. This isn’t a directly observable fact but has been found through genetics, anatomy, fossils, etc. For example, Darwin hypothesized that all of the 13 different species of finches had originally come from on ancestral finch (see #5)]]> 2017-05-19 13:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172800286 sydmacnett https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172800508 Some of Charles Darwin’s Theory Examples include: drug resistance in bacteria, pesticide resistance in plants, rabbits and myxomatosis, and industrial melanism. Darwin was the first person to argue that all species had descended from only one or a few original kinds of life. He collected, studied, and stored organisms. His Galapagos Island observations of the 13 different species of finches are very important. He suspected they all came from one ancestral finch. Though this point is very important, it can be hard to remember the specifics of Darwin's theory. The fact that he, more or less, discovered evolution and natural selection is all I can remember off the top of my head. Therefore, it is the last point.]]> 2017-05-19 13:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172800508 sydmacnett https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172804246 2017-05-19 13:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sydmacnett/e7ade76197qz/wish/172804246