This unit aims to help students understand how How natural selection can lead microevolution and results in populations that are better adapted to their environment. Students will first play like a bird that eat moths. Two phenotypes of moths are presented, and it is likely that students will eat mostly visible moths and therefore create a selective pressure. Then, students are guided to...

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This unit provides three games for students to learn genetic variations and the selective pressure in three different populations (fish, bacteria, flowers). Students will need to select an individual and decide whether the individual has high or low fitness under certain environment. Then students will need to decide whether the change (like mutations of mating) can improve the fitness of that...

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Information about the activities of the Center, and links to resources for learning more about primates, including images of materials available on loan from the Centers Audiovisual Archive. The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center is one of eight federally supported (NIH-NCRR) National Primate Research Centers and the only one in the Midwest. More than 250 center scientists, through...

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This web unit introduces two kinds of speciation (allopatric and sympatric) through an interactive task: the speciation of a group of tropical angiosperms called Fuchsia. Before starting the task, students are advised to review the definition of allopatric and sympatric speciation by entering "click here". In the Fuchsia task, the website presents observations and then ask students to...

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Students interact with online case studies to learn how to evaluate evidence about differences between populations of related organisms and how to use evidence to make informed decisions about species and speciation. The examples include mosquitoes and Florida panthers.

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