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| Group of individuals of the same species living in the same place. |
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| Group of individuals that represent populations. |
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| What Mean and Standard Deviation shows about a population? |
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| Illustrates useful or easy to manage information concerning a population. |
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| Describe: Symmetric Variation Pattern |
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| A bell shaped curve with symmetry. |
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| Describe: Skewed Distribution |
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| A bell shaped curve where the peak is shifted over one side of the curve. |
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| Describe: Bimodal Distribution |
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| A curve with two bells, or peaks. |
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| Factors that cause bimodal distributions? |
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| Factors that cause skewed distributions? |
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| A visual way to show how individuals in a population vary. |
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| Information that originated directly from the topic of interest. |
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| A source that compiles primary sources to make a more concise point. |
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| A source that belongs to the popular media, such as magazines. |
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| Mark-Resampling Method Purpose |
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| Estimate the size of a population. |
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M/N=R/C
M -> Total # Marked Individuals
N -> Total Population
R -> # of Marked Recaptured Individuals
C -> Total Recaptured Individuals |
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| Conditions for Lincoln-Peterson Index Accuracy |
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| Markers are not lost, No Birth / Death, No movement, No harm to marked individual. |
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| Three General Dispersion Patterns of Populations |
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| Aggregated, Uniform, Random. |
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| Factors that influence patterns of individuals in populations? |
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| Competition separates individuals. Mating season aggregate individuals. |
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| Theory based on observations and predictions |
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| A measure of the total # of species as well as their abundance |
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Shannon Weiner Index:
Pi
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Shannon Weiner Index:
Relative Abundance
Number of Individuals in a Species
Total number of Individuals |
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| Compound vs Dissecting Microscope |
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Compound: 2D, see very small specimens
Dissect: 3D, Larger Organisms |
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| Why cells can't resolve under a LM? |
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| Lack contrast with surroundings |
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| When a liquid is used to resolve 40x magnification to reduce refraction |
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| How bacteria are distinguished? |
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Form, Elevation, Margin
(Coccus, Bacillus, Spirillum) |
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| Simple, Small, No Organelles, Unicell |
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| Complex, Large, Organelles, Multicell |
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| Bacteria break down organic material for recycling of nutrients |
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| They can be tracked and can insert their DNA into another organism, useful in medicine. |
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| Require an organic carbon source |
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| Can synthesize their own organic compounds |
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Single celled animal like protists.
(ex: Amoeba, Paramecium) |
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| Recycle nutrients, Component of food chain (consume bacteria) |
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| Multicellularity vs Protozoa |
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| Protozoa joined together to perform a specific function; became organelles. |
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| Protozoa have organelles for movement (cilia + flagella); Contain chloroplasts |
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| Why Termites Were Observed |
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| Termites contain Trichanympha (protist) which supply cellulose to break down wood |
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| Point of Crayfish Sampling |
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| Determine if the Rusty Crayfish has invaded, and observe effects it may have on natives. |
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| Effects of Invasive Rusty Crayfish |
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| Reduction of biodiversity due to competition with native crayfish |
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| Does Owens Creek Face a Threat? |
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| Owens Creek does not face an immediate threat from rusty crayfish. |
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| Bryophytes (Mosses), Seedless Vascular (Ferns), Gymnosperms (Conifers), Angiosperms (Flowering) |
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| Function of Vascular Tissue |
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| Transports water and nutrients throughout plants and allows it to survive in drier environments. |
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| Use the sun to perform photosynthesis. |
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| Absorb water and nutrients |
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| Reason for Green in Plants |
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| Bryophyte Reproductive Properties |
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| Sperm transfer from antheridium to archegonium requires a moist environment |
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| Reproductive Traits of Seedless Vascular |
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| Requires a moist environment to transfer sperm |
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| Gymnosperm Reproductive Methods |
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| Sperm located in pollen grains. Travel via wind. Protective seed coating. |
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| Angiosperm Reproductive Traits |
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| Transfer pollen from Anther, to Stigma, to Style, to Ovary. Then, it becomes a seed/fruit. |
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| Challenges for Plants Regarding Moving to Land |
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| Obtaining Vascular Systems, as well as overcome swimming sperm. |
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| How have flowers and pollinators coevolved? |
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| Flowers became more appealing and accessible so that pollinators could adapt to have obtain food and flowers reproduce. (Ex: hummingbird long beak for trumpet flowers) |
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| Monocot leaves have parallel veins, while Dicot leaves have web like veins |
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| Where fruits are produced. |
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| Fruits are produced in the ovary. |
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| Male cone has pollen filled sacs. |
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| Color, Shape, Size, Subregions |
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| How animals have become more complex? |
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| Increasing the number of tissues, creating a body cavity, specialized organs |
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| Radial Symmetry Advantages |
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| No side has an unfair advantage over another |
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| Bilateral Symmetry Advantages |
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| Allow organism to develop sensory organs in specific locations to allow for a sense of direction. |
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| Challenges of animals moving from water to land |
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| Faced supporting their own weight, obtaining appendages that can grip land |
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| Advantage of One-Way Digestive Tract |
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| Does not leave food undigested |
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| They are adaptive due to the fact that their segmented legs are attached to a segment of their body |
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| Segmentation separates the body structure so that organs can be specialized to certain locations. |
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| It is a hermaprodite. It contains both male and female reproductive organs. |
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| Why are earthworms and clamworms well-suited? |
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| Earthworms have chaetae that increase surface area so that it can pull itself along the soil. Clamworms produce wave like motions with parapodia to propel itself through water. |
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| Crayfish Appendage Differences |
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| Crayfish appendages differ because they have walking legs and swimmerets to perform multiple functions. |
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| They are not crabs. They are closely related to spiders and scorpions. |
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| They move with a tube foot and a vascular system |
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| Tissue Layers of Cnidarians |
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| Tissue Layers of Flatworms |
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| Fluid filled cavity with 3 tissue layers or more. It provides cushioning. |
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No body cavity
(Ex: Flatworms) |
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| Body cavity between endoderm and mesoderm. |
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| Relation of Sea Squirts to Humans |
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| Larvae resemble the beginnings of humans (fetus) |
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Sponges, 1 Tissue, Symmetrical, Feed by sifting through water, filter feeder,
poison for defense, important for filtering |
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| Jellyfish, 2 Layers, Radial, Incomplete digestive tract, During Medusa it floats, As a polyp is it stationary, It is predatory, Expells water and tentacles draw in stinger with cells |
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| Flatworm, Tapeworm, 3 layers, Bilateral, Acoelomate, To eat absorb predigested food, parasitic, hermaphrodite |
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| Roundworms, Nematodes, 3 tissue layers, bilateral, Pseudocoelomates, Complete digestive track, free living lifestyle, feed on decaying organic material |
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| segmented worms, earthworm or leeches, 3 tissue layers, bilateral symmetry, eucoelomate, eat with specialized organs, move with cilia, free living lifestyle |
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