Darwins Dangerous Idea Part 1 Video (60 mins) 1. What was young Darwins prospective profession?

Medical doctor; clergyman

2. What was the idea of natural selection considered revolutionary science? Many believed in the immutability of species and a common creation event. 3. What was Darwins explanation of mountain building? Mountains were build-up over time by relatively small uplifts. 4. What was the key to understanding geological chance? Great expanses of time.

5. If species dont adapt to changing environments, what may happen to them? They become extinct. 6. In the tree of life model, the trunk represents the ancient ______ _____ Common ancestor 7. According to Darwin, all species on earth are _________. Related by a line of common descent.

8. How are Darwins finches different from each other? Why? By their bills. They have adapted to different feeding schemes.

9. For evolution, both geological and biological, _____ and ______ are important. Change and time 10. In understanding hummingbird biology, why are bill lengths important? Longer bills will be adaptive in certain environments where flowers have long body tubes.
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11. What do modern biologists have access to that Darwin didnt? DNA analysis 12. What was Malthus contribution? The struggle for existence concept 13. Why is man (humans) no exception to nature? Humans are a part of nature subject to the laws of physics.

14. How does HIV provide a real life model of evolution? HIV mutants very rapidly and becomes resistant to drugs very rapidly.
Darwins Dangerous Ideas Part 2 Video (50 mins) KEY 1 The process of natural selection feeds on __change/mutations_______.

How is it possible to trick the resistant HIV? Stop

treatment until the wild type virus re-emerges, then hit it hard with drugs.

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Similarity in a group of organisms structures suggests an ancient

common

origin.
To many, the eye is a sign of a(n) benevolent

creator (or something

similar) It has two layers making up the retina. With age these often separate leading to reduced vision or blindness.
Is the human eye perfect? Why or why not? No.

is the point where the optical nerve leaves the posterior of the eye. There are no cones/rods there.

What is the origin of the vertebrate eyes blind spot? It

This is a Light sensetive region odf epithelial tissue which is slightly envaginated. To form a cup shaped eye that can preceive shadows, not images.
Describe a primitive cup eye.

What can a cup eye detect? Shadows

slight changes over time the cup closes to form a pin hole eye which form an image. Then a thin section of clear epithelium acts as lens to focus the imagine.

How could a complex eye evolve from a cup eye? Explain. By