The following is a table of contents for the on-line manual (the "lab manual") for Biology 391, Organic Evolution, as taught by Dr. Rebecca Irwin at The University of Tennessee at Martin.  It consists of practice questions that accompany and test your knowledge of lecture and assigned reading material. We will discuss these practice questions during the weekly lab sections of the course, so be sure to bring a copy of the questions or assignment for each lab to the lab.  See the lecture syllabus for information on which questions/assignments to bring each week. Clicking on one of the headings below will take you to the practice questions on that topic.

1. INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTION: THE EVOLUTION OF HIV
2. NATURAL SELECTION AND MUTATION
3. SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS EXPLANATIONS OF THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
4. POPULATION GENETIC MODELS: UNDERSTANDING THE MODELS, PRACTICE PROBLEMS
5. GENETIC DRIFT, GENE FLOW, AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH NATURAL SELECTION
6. POPULATION GENETIC MODELS: PREDICTED LONG-TERM RESULTS
7. CORRECTING COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT EVOLUTION AND NATURAL SELECTION
8. FREQUENCY DEPENDENT SELECTION, LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM, TEMPORAL VARIATION, COADAPTED GENE COMPLEXES, AND CORRELATED CHARACTERS
9. EVOLUTION OF POLYGENIC TRAITS
10. THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION
11. PRINCIPLES OF PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS
12. PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS AND MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
13. SPECIATION
14. ADAPTATION AND PHYLOGENETIC CONTINGENCY
15. BIOGEOGRAPHY
16. THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
17. SPECIES SELECTION AND ADAPTIVE RADIATION
18. EMBRYOGENY, GENE REGULATION, AND EVOLUTION
19. LEVELS OF SELECTION, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, AND ALTRUISM
20. THE EVOLUTION OF SEX
21. SEXUAL SELECTION
22. HUMAN EVOLUTION
23. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND HUMAN HEALTH