Today you will review all topics that you’ve learned in this unit.
Read through the list of topics from this unit. Make sure that you feel confident about each of them before taking the unit test. If there are any topics that you forget or think you need to practice, go back and review those lessons now.
Organisms with advantageous inheritable traits tend to increase in proportion to those without the trait.
Determine patterns of change in distribution of traits over various times and population scales.
Explain that natural selection causes increases and decreases in heritable traits if it affects reproductive success
Explain the changes in advantageous heritable traits.
Individuals can have traits that give them a competitive edge over other individuals in the species.
Use resources that explain that natural selection leads to adaptations of populations.
Use reasoning and evidence that organisms can adapt to biotic and abiotic factors in their environment.
Distinguish between cause and correlation in an explanation of how natural selection allows species to adapt to changes in their environment.