Guide 1A Discovery
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Quiz, Media, & Portfolio Directions
Review Discovery Contents
Discovery Objectives
Science Discovery
Describe the process of science, including the role of exploration, description, and explanation in developing science knowledge.
Darwin
Describe Darwin’s voyage and research that led to description and explanation of evolution.
Natural Selection
Provide the assumptions of the theory of natural selection, and examples of natural selection in action shaping species over time.
Tree of Life
Read a phylogenetic tree to determine the relatedness of different species.
Animal Characteristics
List the basic characteristics of animals, including the specific characteristics that distinguish worms from other animal species.
Discovery Quiz
Quiz Directions
Complete all five sections and take the quiz on Canvas.
Use the learning outcomes above to guide your studying.
Discovery Media
Introduced in Science Discovery section of this guide:
In this section and the next four sections in this Discovery Guide, you will be taking notes on the concepts that are covered. At the end of the guide, you will upload these notes to Canvas as this guide’s media piece. You can take notes digitally on a device or on a piece of paper that you digitally photograph and upload: your choice.
Include in your notes:
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concepts from all five sections (web pages) in this guide.
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a combination of text, images, and icons. Your notes may be mostly text, but some type of image and use of icons needs to be included.
Media Directions
To be completed after taking the quiz on Canvas.
Once you have completed your notes over all five sections in this guide, upload them to Canvas. Your notes can be submitted as a PDF, a word document, a photo of the notes, or even a video. Multiple assignment formats are supported.
Animal Biology Portfolio
Portfolio Directions
Typically each week you will have about an hour’s worth of work on your Animal Biology Portfolio that is due the Wednesday of Final Exam week (week 11).
This week, since you did the three “start BI 102 here” Canvas pages that took about an hour, there is no portfolio assignment. You can look at those three pages about the course again, if you like:
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