1. What is DNA made of? Where is it located? and what does it do?
2. Did Watson and Crick ‘steal’ research from Wilkens and Frankiln? Explain your answer? does it matter?
3. What are three things Watson and Crick needed to know before they could figure out the structure of DNA?
4. How do you think knowledge of DNA and what it does/how it works has changed the world over the past 60 years?
5. How do you think things may have been different if these scientists worked together instead of separately? How did culture and personality affect this science?

MODERN DARWIN QUESTIONS:

1. What is BMP4 and how is it related to cichlid fish from Africa and finches from the Galapagos? What does it mean that the gene is found in birds and fish halfway around the world?
2. When two droughts hit the Galapagos only a couple decades apart, what happened to the finches? Is this what researchers expected? Why or why not?
3. What is the gene FOXp2 responsible fore in humans, birds, and mice, respectively? What does it mean that different species have the same gene?
4. What is sexual selection, and how does it affect reproductive fitness? How did Darwin feel about sexual selection?
5. How, where, and when did blue eyes originate? Which of the evolutionary forces is likely responsible for blue eyes existing in large numbers of people today? (mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, or some type of selection (natural, sexual, artificial))

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