Color Variation Over Time in Rock Pocket Mouse Populations
Description
Student Learning Targets
- Explain how variation, selection, and time fuel the process of evolution.
- Analyze, organize, and graph data.
Details
adaptation, bar graph, camouflage, evolution, mutation, natural selection, trait
Nachman, M. W., Hopi E. Hoekstra, and Susan L. D’Agostino. “The genetic basis of adaptive melanism in pocket mice.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100, 9 2003: 5268–5273. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0431157100.
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Curriculum Connections
HS-LS2-2, HS-LS2-6, HS-LS3-3, HS-LS4-4, HS-LS4-5; SEP2, SEP4
1.A.1, 1.A.2, 1.A.4, 1.C.3, 4.B.3, 4.C.3; SP1, SP5
5.1, 5.2, 10.3, C.1
II.A, II.C, VII.C
2.1, 3.2
ELA.RST.9–12.3, ELA.RST.9–12.4, ELA.RST.9–12.7, ELA.WHST.9–12.1
MP2, MP3, MP5
CC1, CC2; DP1, DP2, DP3
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