Notes on Module 3 – Biological Diversity

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Inquiry question; How do environmental pressures promote a change in species diversity and abundance? –

1. Selection pressures on organism in ecosystems

2. Investigation changes in a population of organisms due to selection pressures over time

3. Conduct practical investigation, and structural, behavioural and physical adaptations

4. Darwin’s observation and data supporting the theory of evolution by natural selection

5. Modern day examples that demonstrate change

6. Explaining biological diversity in terms of the theory of evolution

7. How microevolutionary changes can drive evolutionary changes and speciation

8. Darwin and Wallace’s theory of evolution by natural selection

9. The difference between punctuated equilibrium and the gradual process of natural selection.

10. Evidence supporting Darwin and Wallace’s theory of evolution by natural selection?