5.1: Evidence for Evolution

prior learning and retrieval practice

U1: Evolution occurs when heritable characteristics of a species change.

Exercise 3: Define evolution. Explain what is meant by a heritable characteristic.

U2: The fossil record provides evidence for evolution.

Exercise 4: Outline how the fossil record provides evidence for evolution

U3: Selective breeding of domesticated animals shows that artificial selection can cause evolution.

Exercise 5: Explain the concept of selective breeding and how it can cause evolution

U5: Populations of a species can gradually diverge into separate species by evolution.

U6: Continuous variation across the geographical range of related populations matches the concept of gradual divergence.

Exercise 7: Explain how populations can gradually diverge into separate species by evolution. Explain what is mean't by continuous variation.