DIGOS CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

QUARTER 2 (WEEK 6)
EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE

Name: ________________________________ Grade & Section: _______________ Date:___________

Topic: Introduction to Life Science

Learning Competencies:
Explain how populations of organisms have changed and continue to change over time showing
patterns of descent with modification from common ancestors to produce the organismal diversity
observed today. (S11/12LT-IVfg- 26)

Objective/s
1. Create a concept map of the historical developments of the Theory of Evolution
2. Differentiate Lamarckian Evolution and Darwinian Evolution through illustrations or models

Activity 1: Spotlight: Philippine Biodiversity

• Watch a video presentation about Philippine Biodiversity (Search Haribon videos in youtube).
• After watching the video, think and pause for 3-5 minutes then relate the video shown to evolution.
Also, in your own words, define evolution and state that evolution explain the diversity of life and not its
origin (how life emerged on earth)
 Activity 2: People Behind Evo
Create a concept map (using ppt, canva, manila paper, or anything that which is convenient for
you) on the historical developments of evolutionary thoughts. Start with Charles Darwin’s name as the
central concept. Further information on the box below.

Some info about the scientist:

1. Carolous Linnaeus
a. Father of taxonomy (differentiate classical taxonomy and modern taxonomy)
b. Started the binomial system of nomenclature
2. Thomas Malthus
a. Believed that populations grow geometrically while resources slowly increase or not at all, leading to
competition
3. Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
a. First to propose about the theory of evolution: Theory of inheritance of acquired traits and Theory of
use and disuse
b. Physiological needs drive Lamarckian evolution
c. Defined evolution as process of increasing complexity
d. No extinction of species. Species disappeared because they just evolved into different species.
e. Organisms adapt to evolve
4. Georges Cuvier
a. Established extinction through fossils
b. Believed that the earth was immensely old
c. Catastrophes caused that each one wiped out several species
d. Did not believe organic evolution because of the mummified cats and ibises
5. James Hutton
a. Proposed theory of gradualism (Slow subtle processes could cause substantial change over time)
b. Great age of the earth
6. Charles Lyell
a. Proposed the theory of uniformitarianism (natural agents now at work on and within the Earth have
operated with general uniformity through immensely long periods of time)
7. Gregor Mendel
a. Studied garden peas
b. Responsible for the: Law of segregation (two alleles for each gene separate during gamete formation)
and Law of Independent Assortment (alleles of genes on nonhomologous chromosomes assort
independently during gamete formation)
8. Charles Darwin
a. Explained evolution through: Natural Selection, Idea of Common Descent, Idea of Gradualism, Idea of
Multiplication of species
b. Organisms evolve
9. Alfred Russel Wallace
a. Had a correspondence with Darwin regarding the theory of evolution by mean of Natural selection
b. Realized that species evolved because fittest individuals survived and reproduced passing their
advantageous characters.
10. Hugo de Vries
a. Rediscovered Mendel’s work
b. Thought of theory of mutation but his idea of mutation before has nothing to do with the real mutations
11. Carl Correns
a. Rediscovered Mendel’s work
b. Worked on the Behavior of the Progeny of Racial Hybrids
12. Erich Von Tschermak
a. Rediscovered Mendel’s work
b. Applied mendial laws to artificial selection to improve crop yield
13. Rosalind Franklin
a. One of the few women during their time to be recognized for her contribution in the scientific
community.
b. Worked on the x-ray diffraction image of the DNA. X-ray crystallography picture of the DNA that time
were not pictures of molecules. The spots were produced by diffracted x-rays from the fibers of a purified
DNA.
c. She also concluded that the sugar-phosphate backbones were outside the DNA molecule (contrary to
Crick and Watson’s claim)
d. Died at the age of 38 (1958) so she was ineligible for the Nobel Prize.
14. James Watson and Francis Crick
a. Discovered that the DNA is a double stranded helix, form Rosalind Franklin’s work
 After you have created your concept map, present and explain it by making a video of
yourself. To spice it up with a little touch of creativity you can use TikTok in creating your video
(optional only). Additionally, you can do your further research of details about the Scientists
enumerated above.

Activity 3: Lamarckian vs. Darwinian Evolution: Comparing theories on Evolution

Study the comparison table of Lamarckian and Darwinian theory of evolution below then answer the
activity below the comparison table.

Now, it’s time to compare the theories!

 Activity 4:
To further test your understanding about the two different thoughts on evolution do an illustration
on how organisms evolve. You may use different animals of your interest. You can draw your illustration
on the box below or you can use a separate sheet of paper.