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Discussion 1
Discussion 1
Prompt
For the following statements, discuss whether each is correct or not. What about it is or isn’t right? How would you say it more correctly or more clearly?
Natural selection is deceptively simple. The three truths about the natural world that ensure natural selection is always happening are new to most students and can be hard to explain unless you really understand what is happening. And the language to explain these ideas needs to be precise. So, this is also an exercise in using class vocabulary correctly. Word choice matters a lot – one word can change the meaning of a sentence!
Instructions
Your discussion group will work together to decide whether and how to fix each statement below. The first person to start on a statement should copy one of the following statements and paste it into your reply to the whole discussion, so we know which one you are editing. Read through the whole discussion first, then if a statement hasn’t been worked on you can start it with a reply to the main discussion prompt. Or join in the discussion on an already started statement by replying to the others in a thread to discuss a statement that was already started. The idea will be to a thread of replies, one for each statement.
Pick from the following statements:
- Natural selection is a process that eventually causes evolution.
- Natural selection occurs in individuals who learn and acquire traits that are best suited to the environment.
- This evolution leads to competition between certain individuals where variation starts to take place and individual traits begin to adapt to the environment.
- These traits can be passed down to offspring to help ensure survival of their population.
- The differences passed on to offspring help them and the species as a whole survive and change.
- Natural selection begins with how individuals in a certain species evolve in a particular environment.
- The environment affects certain species to adapt within the area. The one species that can adapt with its environment really well, tends to reproduce rapidly.
- Individuals will adapt differently depending on their environment.
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