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Evolution
Chapter 16
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• Living things are suited to their environment
• For example, a cactus has needles to reduce the amount of water loss – this is helpful because water is rare in the
• desert
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• Can you tell how these living things are suited to their environment? –Polar bear–Rabbit–Duck–Butterfly–Dandelion
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• What is an adaptation? –A trait that makes a living thing able to survive in its surroundings
–Any trait can be an adaptation
–A trait can be an adaptation in one environment, but bad in another
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• Scenario: A group of beetles live in a forest. Some are blue & red, others are brown & black. Birds also live in the forest. The birds like to eat beetles. Which beetles get eaten more often?
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• Answer: The blue & red beetles should get eaten more often than the brown & black beetles.
• Why? Birds can more easily see blue & red against the forest floor.
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• 1. What trait is the adaptation?
• 2. Do you expect to see more blue/red beetles or brown/black beetles?
• 3. Which will live longer? • 4. Which will have more
offspring?
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• 1. Brown/black color
• 2. More brown/black beetles
• 3. Brown/black beetles
• 4. Brown/black beetles
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• Suppose the same group of beetles & birds live in a field of colorful flowers. Which beetles will be better suited to the new environment? Which get eaten more easily? Why?
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• The blue/red beetles are better suited.
• The brown/black beetles will be eaten more
• The brown/black beetles do not blend in to their environment very well.
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• The adaptation in the second scenario is red/blue coloring
• Blue/red beetles would live longer, produce more offspring and you would see more of them
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• The process described above is called natural selection
• Natural selection says that organisms that are better suited to their environment will live longer, produce more offspring, and therefore their genes will be more prominent in the population
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• Natural selection is the process in which something in a living things’ environment determines if it will survive – something in the environment does the selecting
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• The organisms themselves cannot decide if they will survive – they cannot change their traits
• In our beetle example, what part of the environment did the selecting?
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• The birds did the selecting – they either could or could not see the the beetles based on their coloring
• What else in the environment could select different beetles?
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• If certain beetles had to nest in or around water, the amount of water could be a selecting factor
• If certain beetles had to eat only certain types of plants, the vegetation would be the selecting factor
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What adaptations do these beetles have?
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• Natural selection usually works over a long period of time (100’s-1,000,000,000’s of years)
• Natural selection needs variation to work
• How is variation introduced in a population?
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• Variation is introduced through MUTATIONS
• Mutations can cause new traits, and therefore new adaptations
• A mutation could be good in one environment but bad in another
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• Remember that mutations are changes in the DNA of an organism
• Mutations can therefore be passed on from parent to offspring – this is important to natural selection
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• Natural selection can produce a new species
• What is a species?
• A species is a group of living things that can mate together to produce fertile offspring
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• For example, onions and garlic are closely related plants – they even look very similar – but if they were to mate, the offspring would not be fertile
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• Garlic and onion are not the same species of plant!
• How do new species arise?
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• A group of organisms in the same species may be separated somehow by a barrier – river, canyon, etc
• The environments on either side of the barrier are different (cold/warm)
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• Natural selection occurs on each group, but because the environments are different, natural selection occurs differently
• Different traits appear in each group
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• Much time passes without the two groups coming into contact with each other
• They can become different species & cannot produce fertile offspring if brought back together
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• Charles Darwin traveled around the world on a ship called the Beagle
• On the trip, he collected and studied various living things from each place he visited
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• On the Galapagos Islands he studied the different finches
• Some finches ate insects, some ate berries, others ate nuts
• They all lived on different islands
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• They were similar to each other and also similar to the finches on the main land
• Darwin proposed the theory of natural selection to explain this phenomenon
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There are 4 main points to Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection
1. Living things overproduce
2. There is variation among the offspring
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3. There is a struggle to survive (predators, space, resources, etc)
4. Natural selection is always taking place
Natural Selection is the mechanism for evolution
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• Scientists hypothesize that the very first organism is the common ancestor to all life today
• Natural selection was happening even when life first started
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•Over the many years since then, natural selection has occurred & produced the great variety of living things today
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•Evolution is the changing over time of a species to be more suited to its environment through natural selection
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Survival of the Fittest
• A simple way to explain evolution through natural selection is the phrase – survival of the fittest.
• Basically, those organisms best suited to the environment are the ones who live the longest and pass on their genes
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Survival of the Fittest
• As time goes on, more and more of the members of a species are “fit” to their environment, and traits that make them unfit will be seen less and less
• Less desirable traits may even go away for good
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Survival of the Fittest
• The fittest does not mean the fastest or the strongest or even the smartest
• What “fittest” means is determined by the environment – it could be color or mating call
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Survival of the Fittest
• Remember, we do not live in a one dimensional world
• Everything that can interact will interact and the term “fittest” will not have a specific definition in most cases – IT’S COMPLICATED!
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Fossils
• Even before Darwin, many scientists had uncovered fossils of extinct organisms and were trying to determine why some fossils were found where others were not
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Anatomy
• Homologous Structures: features that are similar in structure but appear in different organisms and have different functions
• EX: Human Hand Bones vs. Bat Wing Bones (pg 312)
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Homologous Structures
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Anatomy
• Analogous Structures: features that are similar in function but are not similar in origin
• EX: Wings of a Bird vs. Wings of a Butterfly
• Have similar needs therefore a similar solution
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Analogous Structures
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Anatomy
• Vestigial Structures: features that used to be needed on an organism but are no longer used
• EX: Human Appendix, Wings of an Ostrich, Pelvic/Limb Bones of Snakes