Developmental Biologist

Instructions:

• Individually: Read and follow directions for developmental biologist through 2d on pages 45-47 of the BSCS Biology textbook.
• Individually: Write notes on Interview with Developmental Biologist
• Team: Arrange the embryo drawings in order, compare with answer key, discuss questions in 2d.
• Individually: Write explanations to questions in 2d.
• Individually: Once you’ve completed 2d, read “How DNA provides evidence for evolution” and answer these questions in your notebook:
  • Where is DNA located and what does it do?
  • How is DNA used as evidence for evolution?
• Team: Complete the Molecular Connection (cytochrome C) activity in packet.
• Team: Prepare the poster for presenting with the class:
  1. Description of their career
  2. Embryology
     • What you learned from studying different stages of embryos from different organisms and how information is used as evidence for evolution
  3. DNA Comparison of Cytochrome C
     • Share the cladogram and explain how it was constructed
     • Summary about how DNA analysis contributes evidence to the theory of evolution