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Specific Expectations
C1. Relating Science to Technology,
Society, and the Environment
By the end of this course, students will:
C1.1 analyse, on the basis of research, the economic
and environmental advantages and disadvantages
of an artificial selection technology (e.g.,
livestock and horticultural breeding)

C1.2 evaluate the possible impact of an environmental
change on natural selection and on
the vulnerability of species (e.g., adaptation to
environmental changes can affect reproductive
success of an organism) C2. Developing Skills of Investigation
and Communication
By the end of this course, students will:
C2.1 use appropriate terminology related to evolution,
including, but not limited to: extinction,
natural selection, phylogeny, speciation, niche,
mutation, mimicry, adaptation, and survival of
the fittest

C2.2 use a research process to investigate some of
the key factors that affect the evolutionary
process (e.g., genetic mutations, selective
pressures, environmental stresses)

C2.3 analyse, on the basis of research, and report
on the contributions of various scientists to
modern theories of evolution (e.g., Charles Lyell,
Thomas Malthus, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Charles
Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Niles Eldredge)

C2.4 investigate, through a case study or computer
simulation, the processes of natural selection
and artificial selection (e.g., selective breeding,
antibiotic resistance in microorganisms), and
analyse the different mechanisms by which
they occur
C3. Understanding Basic Concepts
By the end of this course, students will:
C3.1 explain the fundamental theory of evolution,
using the evolutionary mechanism of natural
selection to illustrate the process of biological
change over time

C3.2 explain the process of adaptation of individual
organisms to their environment (e.g., some
disease-causing bacteria in a bacterial population
can survive exposure to antibiotics due to
slight genetic variations from the rest of the
population, which allows successful surviving
bacteria to pass on antibiotic resistance to the
next generation)

C3.3 define the concept of speciation, and explain
the process by which new species are formed

C3.4 describe some evolutionary mechanisms
(e.g., natural selection, artificial selection,
sexual selection, genetic variation, genetic
drift, biotechnology), and explain how they
affect the evolutionary development and
extinction of various species (e.g., Darwin’s
finches, giraffes, pandas)