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 * UNIT 2 REVIEW GUIDE **

** Chapter 4 **

- What are the three kinds of adaptations? - What is variation and the two ways it comes about? - Describe the different kinds of mutations and how mutations can be passed on to offspring - Know the scientists and their major contributions - Know how to calculate the age of a fossil (4.2 lab) - Know the role natural selection plays in evolution. - What does it mean to say and organism has good fitness? - Explain how an organism can have a selective advantage - Explain what it means to say that a population evolves, not an individual - Know the difference between homologous and analogous structures - Know the general timeline of Earth (major mass extinctions, how old it is and in general, when major life forms began) - What does adaptive radiation mean? - What are the two pathways to speciation? - What are the 2 paces of evolution? - How do organisms become reproductively isolated (know the different barriers)

** Chapter 3 **

- Know the organization of the biosphere - Know how to classify organisms based on the 6 kingdom and 3 domain system - What are the different taxons? - Know general characteristics about Alberta biomes - Describe what is meant by an ecological niche - Be able to identify biotic and abiotic limiting factors