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Evo-devo

Grade Level(s):

  • 13-16
  • Advanced
  • General

Source:

  • UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

  • Tutorial

Time: 20 minutes

Overview

Understanding the process of development can help us understand how some major evolutionary changes occurred and why others did not.

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  • [Evidence of evolution: Grades 13-16] Features sometimes acquire new functions through natural selection.
  • [Evidence of evolution: Grades 13-16] Similarities among existing organisms (including morphological, developmental, and molecular similarities) reflect common ancestry and provide evidence for evolution.
  • [Mechanisms of evolution: Grades 13-16] New heritable traits can result from mutations.
  • [Mechanisms of evolution: Grades 13-16] Complex traits can arise through the cooption of another trait.

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