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Quarter 3 - Module 4
EVOLUTION & HEREDITY
GENERAL BIOLOGY 2
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General Biology 2 - Grade 12
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Quarter 3 - Module 4: Evolution & Heredity
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Table of Contents
First Quarter
Lesson 1: Development of Evolutionary Thought
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Module 4
Evolution & Heredity
What This Module is About
This module will help you explore the key concepts on topics that will help you
answer the questions pertaining to our very own, planet earth.
5. Explain how the structural and developmental characteristics and relatedness of DNA
sequences are used in classifying living things. STEM_BIO11/12IIIhj-14
6. Identify the unique/ distinctive characteristics of a specific taxon relative to other taxa
(STEM_BIO11/12IIIhj-15)
7. Describe species diversity and cladistics, including the types of evidence and
procedures that can be used to establish evolutionary relationships.
(STEM_BIO11/12IIIhj-16)
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How to Learn from this Module
To achieve the learning competencies cited above, you are to do the following:
• take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• answer all the given tests and exercises.
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Lesson Development of Evolutionary
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Learning Competency
The learners shall be able to trace the development of evolutionary thought. STEM_BIO11/12-IIIc-g-
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What I know
1. Taxonomy 6. Family
2. Kingdom 7. Genus
3. Phylum 8. Species
4. Class 9.Natural Selection
5. Order 10. Artificial Selection
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PRE-ACTIVITY: Research
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INTRODUCTION:
❖ Scientific classification is a method by which biologists organize living things into groups. It is
also called taxonomy. Groups of organisms in taxonomy are called taxa (singular, taxon). You
may already be familiar with commonly used taxa, such as the kingdom and species.
❖ Why do biologists classify organisms? The major reason is to make sense of the incredible
diversity of life on Earth. Scientists have identified millions of different species of organisms.
Among animals, the most diverse group of organisms is the insects.
Linnaean System of Classification
❖ The most influential early classification system was developed by Carolus Linnaeus. In fact, all
modern classification systems have their roots in Linnaeus’ system. Linnaeus was a Swedish
botanist who lived during the 1700s. He is known as the “father of taxonomy.” Linnaeus tried
to describe and classify the entire known natural world. In 1735, he published his classification
system in a work called Systema Naturae (“System of Nature”).
❖ The taxa are below:
o Kingdom - This is the highest taxon in Linnaean taxonomy, representing major
divisions of organisms. Kingdoms of organisms include the plant and animal kingdoms.
o Phylum (plural, phyla) - This taxon is a division of a kingdom. Phyla in the animal
kingdom include chordates (animals with an internal skeleton) and arthropods
(animals with an external skeleton).
o Class - This taxon is a division of a phylum. Classes in the chordate phylum include
mammals and birds.
o Order - This taxon is a division of a class. Orders in the mammal class include rodents
and primates.
o Family - This taxon is a division of an order. Families in the primate order include
hominids (apes and humans) and hylobatids (gibbons).
o Genus - This taxon is a division of a family. Genera in the hominid family include Homo
(humans) and Pan (chimpanzees).
o Species - This taxon is below the genus and the lowest taxon in Linnaeus’ system.
Species in the Pan genus include Pan troglodytes (common chimpanzees) and Pan
paniscus (pygmy chimpanzees).
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❖ Thomas Malthus was an English economist. He wrote a popular essay called “On Population.”
He argued that human populations have the potential to grow faster than the resources they
need. When populations get too big, disease and famine occur. These calamities control
population size by killing off the weakest people.
❖ Catastrophism was a theory developed by Georges Cuvier based on paleontological evidence
in the Paris Basin. Cuvier was there when he observed something peculiar about the fossil
record. Instead of finding a continuous succession of fossils, Cuvier noticed several gaps where
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all evidence of life would disappear and then abruptly reappear again after a notable amount
of time. Cuvier recognized these gaps in the fossil succession as mass extinction events.
❖ This led Cuvier to develop a theory called catastrophism. Catastrophism states that natural
history has been punctuated by catastrophic events that altered that way life developed and
rocks were deposited.
❖ In geology, gradualism is a theory developed by James Hutton according to which profound
changes to the Earth
❖ This theory inspired an evolution theory in paleontology, also called gradualism, according to
which the species appeared by the gradual transformation of ancestral species.
❖ According to this theory, the population of a species is transformed slowly and progressively
into a new species by the accumulation of micro-evolutionary changes in the genetic heritage.
❖ The law of use and disuse, which states that when certain organs become specially developed
as a result of some environmental need, then that state of development is hereditary and can
be passed on to progeny.
❖ It took Darwin years to form his theory of evolution by natural selection. His reasoning went
like this:
1. Like Lamarck, Darwin assumed that species can change over time. The fossils he
found helped convince him of that.
2. From Lyell, Darwin saw that Earth and its life were very old. Thus, there had been
enough time for evolution to produce the great diversity of life Darwin had observed.
3. From Malthus, Darwin knew that populations could grow faster than their
resources. This “overproduction of offspring” led to a “struggle for existence,” in Darwin’s
words.
4. From artificial selection, Darwin knew that some offspring have variations that
occur by chance, and that can be inherited. In nature, offspring with certain variations might
be more likely to survive the “struggle for existence” and reproduce. If so, they would pass
their favorable variations to their offspring.
5. Darwin coined the term fitness to refer to an organism’s relative ability to survive
and produce fertile offspring. Nature selects the variations that are most useful. Therefore,
he called this type of selection natural selection.
6. Darwin knew artificial selection could change domestic species over time. He
inferred that natural selection could also change species over time. In fact, he thought that if
a species changed enough, it might evolve into a new species.
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