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Students learn why evolution is at the heart of a world health threat by investigating the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance in such menacing diseases as tuberculosis.Author/Source:
WGBH Grade level:
9-12 Time:
One to three class periods. Teaching tips:
An excellent lesson to demonstrate the relevance of evolution to our daily lives. Concepts: - Evolution results from selection acting upon genetic variation within a population.
- New heritable traits can result from recombinations of existing genes or from genetic mutations in reproductive cells.
- Mutations are random.
- Traits that confer an advantage may persist in the population and are called adaptations.
- Inherited characteristics affect the likelihood of an organism's survival and reproduction.
- Natural selection acts on the variation that exists in a population.
- Over time, the proportion of individuals with advantageous characteristics may increase (and the proportion with disadvantageous characteristics may decrease) due to their likelihood of surviving and reproducing.
- A hallmark of science is exposing ideas to testing.
- Scientists test their ideas using multiple lines of evidence.
- Scientists can test ideas about events and processes long past, very distant, and not directly observable.
- Scientists use multiple research methods (experiments, observational research, comparative research, and modeling) to collect data.
- Scientists use experimental evidence to study evolutionary processes.
- As with other scientific disciplines, evolutionary biology has applications that factor into everyday life.
- There is variation within a population.
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