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Biology 110 Final
Evolution,Biodiversity and Ecology
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2015

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Typological thinking
Definition
  • organisms are unchanging
  • the earth is young
  • there are no important variations
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charles lyll
Definition
founded geology. Challenged typological thinking
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Carl Linnaeus
Definition
Categorized species into groups. Challeneged typological thinking
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Jean Lamark
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Proposed the first theory of evolution but still supported special creation
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Charles Darwin
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  • founded population thinking
  • found important variations amongst the birds he was studying
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populations
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  • groups of organisms that live at the same place at the same time
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population thinking
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recognizes the variations between populations
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Evolution
Definition
change in characteristics of a population with time( Descent with modification)
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Evidence of evolution
Definition
  • geological records
  • fossil records
  • vestigial traits
  • Biogeography
  • structural homologies
  • genetic homologies
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Natural selection
Definition
it occurs when heretable traits lead to differential survival and repeoduction
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four postulates
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  • Variations in individuals
  • traits are heritable
  • the struggle for existence will facilitate survival and reproduction for organisms with most fitness
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adaptations
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created by natural selection. They are traits that help the organism survive and reproduce
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mutations
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random changes in genetic makeup of organisms during cell division. The only source of new traits.
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blending theory of inheritance
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that parental traits and genes blend together to make offsprings traits.
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gregor mendel
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  • father of modern genetics
  • elucidated the blending theory
  • he examined the transmission of variable phenotypes across many generations of the garden peas in his monastery
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traits
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it is any observable characteristic of an organism
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phenotype
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it is a measure value of a trait
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principle of segregation
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gametes are formed, alleles from one trait separate into different gametes.

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evolution
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it is the change in allelic frequency of a population over time.
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genetic drift
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it causes allele frequencies to change randomly
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gene flow
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it occurs when individuals leave one population, join another and breed
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hardy-weinberg principle
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hardy and weinberg hyppthesized that all of the alleles from all the gametes produced in each generation goes into a single group called the gene pool and combined at random to form offspring. It was a null hypothesis for evolution
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four evolutionary forces
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  • random mating
  • natural selection
  • genetic drift
  • gene flow
  • mutation
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Mechanisms of evolution
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  • directional selection

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  • stabilizing selection

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  • disruptive selection

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  • balancing selection

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