Artificial Selection And The Evolution Of Domestic Dogs
This lesson explores how scientists use data to draw inferences about evolutionary relationships and how humans engage in artificial selection, even without consciously meaning to! In this lesson, students will learn about dog domestication and a new study that provides insights and evidence into how and why domestic dogs and wolves have diverged. The activity should take approximately one 50-minute class period and was designed for use in an introductory high school biology course.
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Topics
- evolutionary relationships
- artificial selection
- natural selection
- genomic analysis
- phenotypic traits
- genomics
- anthropology
- genomic signature
- amylase
- maltase
- breed
- domestication
- mutation
- phenotypic plasticity
- phylogenetic tree
- speciation
- whole genome sequencing