Natural Selection
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Topics
- Mutation
- Genetics
- Selection
Description
Explore how organisms with different traits survive various selection agents within the environment.
Sample Learning Goals
- Determine which mutations are favored by the selection agents of predators and food variety and which mutations are neutral.
- Describe which traits change the survivability of an organism in different environments.
- Experiment with environments which produce a stable population of bunnies, a population that dies out, and a population that takes over the world.
- Track genes through multiple generations.
- Compare how dominant and recessive genes get passed onto offspring.
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Teacher-Submitted Activities
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Stephen DeHart | UG-Intro HS |
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| Natural Selection Lesson by UTeach |
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UTeach Middle School PhET Team | MS | Lab | Biology | |
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Trish Loeblein updated by Diana López | MS HS |
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| How do PhET simulations fit in my middle school program? |
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Sarah Borenstein | MS | Other | Earth Science Physics Chemistry Biology |
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| PhET Lab Natural Selection 2 | Patrick Borden | MS | HW Lab Remote |
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| Natural Selection Lab Questions | Patrick Borden | MS | Lab Remote HW |
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| Natural Selection Simulation Activity | Jordan Ingle | HS MS |
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| MS and HS TEK to Sim Alignment | Elyse Zimmer | MS HS |
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| Atividade Seleção Natural e Adaptação das espécies | Jaírla Bianca Aires Praciano; Raphael Alves Feitosa. | MS | Guided | Biology Earth Science |
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| Actividad Selección Natural | Claire Colina | HS MS |
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