SEE-UAtlantic Forest

General Methadology for Instructors and TAs

Exercise 3: Intraspecific Vigor and Diversity along a Resource Gradient
Module 3: Natural Selection and Evolution

Lecture

Instructor gives the biological background during the lecture on natural selection.

Hypotheses to test

(students should create hypotheses similar to these in their own words)

Independent variables in the experiment

Dependent variables that they could use in their experimental design

Evaluation

Students will be evaluated by having them do a group oral presentation which will be no more than 15 minutes long.

Note

This will also be one of the first exercises during which students will be collecting scientific data of their own, so care should be exercised in the field to ensure that the students are rigorous and thorough in the data collection.

Molecular Alternative

At those places where the hardware exists, we should do allozyme diversity of an organism of the students’ choosing