SURFING Biology - Evolution of Australian Biota (Revised)

Content

1    Assumed Knowledge
2    Plate Tectonics
3    Matching Continental Margins
4    Mid-Ocean Ridges and Spreading Zones
5    Australia Moves North
6    Fossils and Gondwana
7    Glossopteris and Gangamopteris
8    Gondwanan Mammals
9    Present-day Gondwanan Organisms
10    The Platypus
11    Extinct and Extant Australian Species
12    Variation in a Species
13    Variation in Magpies
14    Variation in Koalas
15    Timeline for Australia
16    Timeline for the Cainozoic Era
17    Australian Fossil Sites
18    Play – Inside Evolution in Australia
19    Megafauna
20    Case Study – Fossils and Current Australian Life Forms
21    Present Australian Biomes
22    Changing Environments in Australia
23    Acacia in Australia
24    Changing Distribution of Australian Species
25    Bettongs in Australia
26    Tasmanian Devils in Australia
27    Theories to Account for Changing Distribution
28    Charles Darwin and Australia
29    Huxley-Wilberforce Debate
30    Mitosis
31    Meiosis
32    Comparing Meiosis and Mitosis
33    Internal and External Fertilisation
34    Fertilisation in Plants
35    Structure of a Flower
36    Pollination in Australian Plants
37    Seed Dispersal in Australian Plants
38    Banksias
39    Asexual Reproduction in Australian Plants
40    Fertilisation in Australian Animals
41    Survival of Young in Australian Animals
42    Kingfishers – the Laughing Kookaburra
43    Asexual Reproduction in Animals
44    Palaeontology and Distribution
45    Human Activities
46    Biodiversity

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