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Evolution

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Process by which populations of living things change over a series of generation

Does not refer to individual change

Organisms that are best adapted to their environment will be most likely to survive

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Changing Earth - Fossils

Fossil Formation

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  • Teeth, shells, bones resist weather for a long period of time
  • Insects may be trapped in amber
  • Impressions left by plants/animals
  • Fecal matter
  • Intracellular spaces of skeletal material can be replaced with minerals
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Changing Earth - Fossils

The complexity of living organisms has _____ from the past to now

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Increased

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Changing Earth - Fossils`

Living species are usually located in the ___ geographic region as their most closely matching fossil

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Same

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Dating the past

Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875)

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Stated that most geological change was slow and gradual and had been going on over long periods of time

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Dating the past

Relative Dating

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545 - 525 MYA
* Deeper sedimentary rock layers means they formed earlier → older fossil

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Dating the past

Rediation Dating

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Technique to determine age of a rock or fossil by radioactive isotope decay rate

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Burgess Shale

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  • Contains the best animal fossils
  • One of the most diverse and well -reserved fossil localities in the world

During this period, life was restricted to the world’s oceans

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Cambrain Explosion

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Evolutionary burst of animal origins

545 - 525 MYA

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Changing Earth - Biogeography

Biogeography

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The study of the variation and geographic distribution of life on Earth (past and present)

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Theory of Plate Tectonics

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  • 225 MYA Earth had 1 landmass (Pangea)
  • Seperated into continents by shfiting tectonic plates

  • Fossil of species older than 150 MYA were on the same continents
  • Species younger than 150 MYA were on seperate continents
  • They evolved after the breakup of Pangea
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Homologous Structures

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  • Features with similar structures but different functions
  • Similar origin but different uses in different species
  • Forelimbs adapted for different functions, but have similar bone structure
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Analogous Structures

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  • Similar in function and appearance but not in origin
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Convergent Evolution

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  • Development of similar adaptations from unrelated species
  • Occupy equivalent niches on different continents
  • Due to similar environmental conditions
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Embryonic Development

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  • Late 1800’s: Scientists noted similarity between embryos of different species
  • Many structures in an embryo are similar to those found in common ancestors
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Vestigal Features

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  • Rudimentary structures with no useful function
  • May have been functional in ancestor
  • Present in all species → very compelling evidence for evolution
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All organisms share similar _____ molecules and some ____

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DNA , proteins

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Gene

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A segment of DNA that performs a specific functions

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Artificial Selection / Selective Breeding

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Process of humans selecting and breeding individuals with desired traits

Dramatic changes are produced in species over a relatively short period

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Scientific Theory

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Model that accounts for all known scientific evidences

* Requires plausible explanation
* Altered/modified as data is gained

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Ethical concern behind Artificial Selection

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  • People question whether it is ethical to breed them for human consumption
  • Makes animals unfit to survive in nature
  • Can also cause physical and psychological stress for animals
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Timeline of evidence of evolution

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

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  • First to attempt to classify animals
  • Recognized species are not stable and unalterable
  • Blooded vs bloodless
  • First to propose Spontaneous Generation
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Timeline of evidence of evolution

Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1750’s)

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  • Leading naturalist
  • Species could change over time which could lead to new organisms
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Timeline of evidence of evolution

Carl Linnaeus (1760’s)

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  • Founder of binomial nomenclature (genus and species classification)
  • The few species at creation became hybrids which led to new species
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Timeline of evidence of evolution

Erasmus Darwin (Darwin’s grandpa) (1790’s)

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  • All life developed from a single source
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Timeline of evidence of evolution

Jean-Baptise Pierre Antoine de Money Chevalier de Lemark (Early 1800’s)

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  • First theory of evolution with a mechanism (Simple species are continually created by Spontaneous generation and then become more complex)
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Lamarckism

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  • Inheritance of acquired characteristics

False concept, but key recognition of environment role in driving evolutionary change

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Timeline of evidence of evolution

Charles Darwin (1830-1860)

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  • Natural Selection - Result of differential reproductive success of individuals caused by variations in their inherited characteristics
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Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

Overproduction

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Number of offspring produced by a species is greater than that can survive and reproduce

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Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

Competition

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Organisms must compete for the same limited resources; struggle for existence

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Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

Variation

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  • No two individuls are exactly alike (except identical twins)
  • Sexual reproduction creates variability in a population
  • Offspring inherit most of parents traits
  • Some traits arise randomly (genetic mutation)
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Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

Survival of the Fittest

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The environment acts to select favourable traits (not create them). Those with an advantage survive and reproduce, increasing their numbers

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Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

Speciation

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  • Individuals do not change – populations change over time
  • Accumulation of new traits over a long period of time
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Mutations

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Random changes in DNA that provide a continous

Mutations can also occur because of meiosis

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Asexual Reproduction

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Reproduction without a mate
* Recieve the exact same DNA as aparent DNA
* Only source of variation is mutations

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Sexual Reproduction

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Production of offpsring by union of gametes from two different parents

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Why are sexually reproducing species variable in their phenotype

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  • Offspring inherits random assortments of genes from either parent
  • Therefore, each sibling has a unique combination of genes
  • Higher number of genes, creating genetic variability
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Adaptations

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Change in a characteristic of an organims that increases its chance of survival

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Structural adaptation

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Physical characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment

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Behavioral adaptations

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Something an organism does usually in response to an external stimulus that helps them to survive

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Physiological adaptations

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A process inside of organism’s body that help it to survive in its environment

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Speciation

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Forming a new species

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Allopatric Speciation

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  1. Physical Barrier
  2. Natural selection works on seperate populations
  3. Groups are no longer sexually compatible due to accumulated physical/behavioral differences
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Darwin’s Finches

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  • They became different species of finches due to geographic isolation
  • Over time, the food source they were best adapted to distinguished them from each other
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Theory of Gradualism

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  • Specialization occurs slowly
  • Fossil record shows abrupt changes but we are missing many pieces
  • Fossil records suggest whales gradually evolved from land to water
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Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium

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  1. Many species evolve very rapidly in evolutionary time
  2. Speciation usually occurs in small isolated populations, so intermediate fossils are rare
  3. After an initial burst of evolution, species are well adapted to their environment, so they don’t change much over long periods
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Macroevolution

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Evolution of taxonomic groups
* Evidence of divergent evolution: When species rapidly evolved into many species

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