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Module 9 - Life Science: Genetics and Evolution

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Activity 1 : : Activity 2 : : Activity 3 : : Activity 4 : : Activity 5 : : Activity 6

Activity 2:  Readings

Use the topic list in Activity 1 and the guiding questions in Activity 5 of this module to help focus your reading as you go through the suggested chapters.  Start with either Conceptual Integrated Science or Thinkwell, depending on your learning style.  Conceptual Integrated Science is a textbook and Thinkwell consists of lectures by various professors as well as lessons on different topics.  If there is a guiding question or topic that is not covered adequately in one learning resource, refer to the other learning resource.  Chapters in the WGU Library E-Reserves are also available to help you answer the questions and become competent in natural science.

Conceptual Integrated Science Text

  • Ch. 15 - The Basic Unit of Life: The Cell
  • Ch. 16 – Genetics
  • Ch. 17 – The Evolution of Life

Thinkwell

  • Thinkwell.com/wgu > Course Home > Life Science: Competency 102.5.3 >

          3.9 Life Cycles
                   3.10 Gregor Mendel
                             3.10.1 Heredity: The Story of Gregor Mendel
                             3.10.2 Mendel’s Findings: A First Look at Phenotypic Ratios
                             3.10.3 Mendel’s Conclusions: Alternate Alleles and Dominance
                             3.10.4 Mendel’s Conclusions: Segregation and Recombination
                   3.12 The Hardy Weinberg Theory
                             3.12.1 Population Genetics: Darwin Meets Mendel
                             3.12.2 An Introduction to Hardy-Weinberg Theory
                             3.12.5 Hardy-Weinberg: What Does This Have to Do with Evolution
                   3.14 An Introduction to Evolution
                             3.14.1 Linnaeus, Buffon, and Lamarck
                             3.14.2 Darwin: The Voyage Continues
                             3.14.3 Darwin: More Observations
                             3.14.4 Darwin: The Theory of Natural Selection
                             3.14.5 The Theory of Natural Selection
                             3.14.6 Contrasting Lamarck and Darwin
                             3.14.7 Contrasting Lamarck and Darwin, Part II
                             3.14.8 Fossil Formation, Dating, and Indexing
                             3.14.9 The Fossil Record
                             3.14.10 Some Fossil Surprises
                             3.14.11 The Coevolution of Horses and Plants
                             3.14.12 Human Evolution: The Fossil Record
                             3.14.13 Evidence for Evolution: Biochemical Similarities
                             3.14.14 Evidence for Evolution: Vestigial Structures                           

WGU Library E-reserves

  • Biology:  Ch. 13 Meiosis and Sexual Life Cycles

Campbell, N.A. & Reese, J.B. (2005) Biology, 7th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings. ISBN 080537146X

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