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Biology Curriculum

Know mechanisms for functional divergence at the molecular level that span a wide range of biological complexity. Understand how specific models of adaptive evolution explain real examples of functional divergence. ?

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Prerequiste Learning Outcomes
    What the student is assumed to know before learning this outcome.
  • Comprehend the basic principles of population and quantitative genetics, and give examples of their application to real biological systems. [BIOL 2030]
  • Define and explain the four evolutionary forces, mutation, selection, drift and migration. [BIOL 2040]
  • Describe how DNA is transcribed to RNA and how RNA is translated into proteins. [BIOL 2030]
  • Explain the basic mechanism(s) by which evolutionarily novel characters (e.g. wings, eyes, blood clotting, flagellae) arise. [BIOL 2040]
  • Explain the basic process of evolution by natural selection (following from what are sometimes called Darwin's postulates). [BIOL 2040]
  • Interpret genetic and protein variability using detailed knowledge of the genetic code and the processes of transcription and translation. [BIOL 2030]
  • Predict the effects of each evolutionary force on allele and genotype frequencies in a given situation and for combinations of two evolutionary forces (calculate the change for simple situations – qualitative predictions for situations involving two evolutionary forces. [BIOL 2040]
Courses Covering This Learning Outcome
  • BIOL 3046

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