Collecting Specific Data

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In your 'Word'  copy and paste data as indicated below. 
If you add your OWN words as you go, highlight them and make them GREEN.

Use this site: Darwin and Natural Selection

1. Skim through to the third paragraph and find:
 "....birds were slightly different...." 

While reading these couple of sentences think about the question:

"How do we get differences within species?"

Copy and paste into 'Word' just the phrases you think will help you answer the question.

2. Skim through the next paragraph and think about how you could use something there as an example of how differences develop.

3. Find adaptive radiation; copy and paste some of the text and add some of your own.

4. The paragraph after this starting with "Darwin..." is very useful. What would you copy and paste?

5. The next paragraph about the finches tells us about natural selection. Just copy and paste the GENERAL information, not specifically about finches.

 6. Copy and paste something that will help you explain survival of the fittest. Does this help us explain how natural selection works?

7. In the second half of the paragraph starting "In 1798..." there is mention of a key to understanding the process of natural selection. Copy and paste what you need.

8. Explain in your own words the example of the natural selection that happened with the MOTH.

9. Click on the link to Toxic Newts then click on 'Quicktime Movie' under the picture. Think about the role that predators have over evolution. Make your own notes in 'Word' after you have finished the movie; then click back to see the article again.

10. What did Greg Mendel understand about why there were variations or differences - look for genetic inheritance.