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Pre-Tidbit Instructions• Get out your clickers• Get out your laptops, i-pads, i-phones, or other
internet connected device– Go to www.codecarnival.com– Click on the first link– Don’t click any further!!
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Natural Selection
John Burke, Matt Elrod-Erickson, Sandra Johnson, Troy Nash, Chris Peterson, Mike
Rischbieter, Dorset Trapnell
17 May 2013
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Context of Unit• Introductory Biology course for majors• Class of 21-50 students, already divided into
working groups of 4• Foundational knowledge from earlier units– Mendelian genetics– Mechanisms of heredity
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Unit Learning Goals• Students will understand…– the definition of natural selection – the source(s) of phenotypic variation– how natural selection drives evolution in a
population
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Unit Learning Outcomes• Students will be able to…– define evolutionary fitness (relative v/s absolute)– predict the relative importance of fertility & viability
differences to overall fitness– identify types of selective forces and how they affect
fitness– explain relationship between random mutation and
non-random selective processes– predict responses to changing selective pressure– compare and contrast outcomes of differing modes
of selection (directional, disruptive, stabilizing)
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Tidbit Learning Outcomes• Students will be able to…– define evolutionary fitness (relative v/s absolute)– predict the relative importance of fertility & viability
differences to overall fitness– identify types of selective forces and how they affect
fitness– explain relationship between random mutation and
non-random selective processes– predict responses to changing selective pressure– compare and contrast outcomes of differing modes
of selection (directional, disruptive, stabilizing)
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Tidbit Preparation• As part of the larger unit on natural selection,
students will have been assigned a news brief reading assignment on Galapagos Finches
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Clicker QuestionAccording to the article, the change in beak size in Galapagos finches was driven by _____.
A. competitionB. predationC. gene flowD. mutualism
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Clicker QuestionWhere did the variation come from?
A. Some finches mutated because they needed smaller beaks.
B. Some finches had access to more seeds, so they grew larger beaks.
C. Undirected chance mutation in beak size gene(s).
D. Some finches hybridized with another species of bird with different sized beaks
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Imagine a population of plants• With mutation and no selective pressure
Parent
Offspring inthe 8 other squares.
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Biomorph Simulation• Use control/command and +/- to adjust size of box• Use “reset” button to reset initial population• Take 2 minutes and get used to program– Clicking on one of the offspring will make it the parent
of the next generation• It will move to blue center box• 8 new offspring will be randomly generated
• Now take 1 minute to simulate the effects of random mutations through at least 15 generations– Randomly select offspring with out regard to their
morphology
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Clicker QuestionIn the previous demo, you saw all manner of shapes and sizes in the plant population over lots of generations when no selective pressure was applied. What does this imply about the effects of mutations on phenotypes?
A. Provide a continuous source of variationB. Mutations alone do not lead to directional
changeC. Both A and BD. Neither A nor B
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Imagine a population of plants• With a selective pressure – access to sunlight• Group activity– Come up with a hypothesis for a morphological
change that would be advantageous in the above scenario (2 minutes)
– Run the simulation, consistently selecting for the morphological trait of your choice (2 minutes)
– Note: Once finished, don’t hit the reset button!!
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3 possible outcomes of selecting for increased branching
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In the same population of plants• The environment changes… • Group Activity– Propose what might happen in the environment that
might alter/reverse the previous trend (2 minutes)– Continue the simulation, consistently selecting for
the new morphological trait of your choice (2 minutes)
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Peppered Moth Group Activity• These are two phenotypes of the same species of moth, which is
heavily preyed upon by birds. The white morph was much more common prior to the industrial revolution. With the rise of industry, pollution and soot started to darken tree trunks. On a notecard, answer the following:1) Why are there different colors of moths? (1 minute)2) Given the changes caused by the industrial revolution, predict what
happened to the relative frequencies of these two color morphs. Explain your answer. (2 minutes)
3) What would happen if all the predatory birds died? Explain your answer. (3 minutes)
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Acknowledgements• Norris Armstrong – Facilitator Extraordinaire!• Kathrin Stanger-Hall – Director Southeast RSI• Groups 2 and 3 for their helpful reviews• Don Raber, Provost – Presbyterian College• Michelle Momany, Plant Biology Department
Head – University of Georgia• Lynn Boyd, Biology Chair – Middle Tennessee
State University