For this assignment, you will create a fact sheet about natural selection. Understanding natural selection is the basis of understanding many common biological processes such as antibiotic resistance, evolution, and competition within an ecosystem.
What is a fact sheet?
Fact sheets are documents that compress critical information into a quick one-page reference. These sheets serve to provide essential information in quick and easy way for others to understand. In other words, they should be visually appealing, crisp, clear and concise. They are not single-page essays. Instead, the text should be broken into small chunks and cleverly designed around charts, images, bullet points and resources.
Here are some examples of fact sheets that should help you get started:
Bullying Fact Sheet
Plastic Bag Laws Fact Sheet
Flu Fact Sheet
Share-Your-Photos Fact Sheet
Your natural selection fact sheet will provide basic information that would provide someone with a general understanding of what natural selection is and why it is important. It should be creatively designed, easy to read, and include basic information. You should also try to make it interesting. Some ideas on what you might include are:
What exactly is natural selection?
What is an example of a source of natural selection in a population?
Does a lot of natural selection exist? What might be an easy way to “see” natural selection in our world?
What would be the possible consequences of a world without natural selection?
How genetic variation is required for the process of natural selection.
You will submit a single-page pdf file of your factsheet. Consider this a professional document, so it should be proofread carefully before submission. It should also include at least one APA cited reference.
