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CONNECTION TO EVOLUTION
B Y: PA O L A V E L E Z
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. How do changes in the genetic material
of organisms influence phenotypes?
2. What can those phenotypic changes
teach us about Evolution?
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From Atom to Traits written by developmental
biology professor David Kingsley talks about how
Charles Darwin saw random variations in
organisms and how it contributed to bring forth
materialistic use for evolution. He also talks about
how now scientists are revealing that diversity
arises from changes to DNA and can result in many
different creatures and even cultures.
GENETIC VARIANT
Duplication
Question
DUPLICATION IN PIGS
Color Changes
Example:
DUPLICATION IN PIGS
Color Changes
Copying mistakes
within individual cells
can also cause the
duplication sequence
to lose bases,
restoring the genes
function and
producing dark
patches on the body.
(From Atoms to Traits)
Example:
DUPLICATON ON PIGS
VariantDuplication: a DNA segment in a chromosome
thats a copy of another segment
Inheritance- Differences are inherited from
parents to its offspring
(Artifical) Selection- Some variants are favorable
depended on their color and size.
Question
Answer
DUPLICATON ON PIGS
Time- Number of generations
Adaptation- Favorable traits become more common like
color mutations in the duplication process.
Neutral because although pigs do have inherited
characteristic[s] that enhance an organism's ability to
survive and reproduce in a particular environment (Biology
Book) like the coping (black spot resulting) mistakes;
Individuals able to survive and reproduce under harsh
conditions left offspring that carried their alleles forward
into subsequent generations.(Biology Book).
CONNECTION TO EVOLUTION
WORKS CITED
Campbell, Neil A. Biology: Concepts & Connections.
New York: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2009. Print.
Kingsley, David M. From Atoms to Traits (n.d.): n. pag.
Web. 1 Apr. 2015.
Rothchild, Max Frederick, and Anatoly Ruvinsky. The
Genetics of the Pig. Wallingford, Oxon, UK: CAB
International, 1998. Print.
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