Title: LAB: Evolutionary Evidence
Course: BIO-182 RTZ > Section: Week 3 - Speciation

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Once you've registered with SimUText, look for the lab titled "Evolutionary Evidence" and complete the following activities. All answer are recorded in a separate document and uploaded/ attached to this assignment. Printing a copy of the workbook (see "go to" button at bottom left of screen) is necessary to complete the assignment.

TO DO:

- Section1: Organizing organisms. In this activity you will organize the animals presented in a fashion that makes sense to you based on their traits. Answer question number 8.1.
- Section 2: Designing lizards. In this activity, you will add unique traits to lizards that live on separate islands. Follow the instructions and answer question number 15.1.
- Section 3: Evolving lizards. Here, the lizards travel between islands and evolve new traits. follow the instructions and answer questions number 11.1,13.1,14.1,14.2,15.1,15.2,15.3,15.4,&15.5.
- Section 4: Disappearing traits. This section is OPTIONAL.
- Section 5: Predicting patterns. This section is OPTIONAL.
- Section 6: Testing Darwin's theory. In this section, you are asked to consider two claims about the origin of Earth's organisms. Work through the instructions and ans the following questions: 3.1, 4 (table), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, & 8.4.
- Section 7: Graded Questions.  You do NOT need to answer the graded question in this section.

When you have completed the assignment, upload the word document with your answers and images from the lab notebook and hit submit.