Four points of natural selection

  • Variation - Differences in the different members o fa species
  • Heritability - The ability to pass their trait to their offspring
  • Overproduction - More organisms are produced than get to survive and reproduce
  • Competition - Organisms battle for limited resources or survival of the fittest

Comic Book Activity

Protocol while reading

  1. Use post-its to annotate
  2. Find three new words you did not know
  3. What did you find funny/interesting
  4. Make on connection to any other units or concepts
  5. Ask one question about your reading

New Terms

  • Lateral Transfers
  • Protists
  • Recombination
  • Ribozymes
  • Great Oxidation