SCIENCE.7.14 — Vertical Alignment
Vertical alignment shows student expectations in the same subject area at different grade levels that are related to or build upon one another.
S.7.14
Organisms and environments. The student knows how the taxonomic system is used to describe relationships between organisms. The student is expected to:
identify and illustrate changes in DNA and evaluate the significance of these changes; and
analyze and evaluate how natural selection produces change in populations and not in individuals;
analyze and evaluate how the elements of natural selection, including inherited variation, the potential of a population to produce more offspring than can survive, and a finite supply of environmental resources, result in differential reproductive success;
analyze and evaluate how natural selection may lead to speciation; and
analyze evolutionary mechanisms other than natural selection, including genetic drift, gene flow, mutation, and genetic recombination, and their effect on the gene pool of a population.