Bio 2 - Lab Practical #1 Flashcards
Evolution
any change in heritable characteristics of a biological population over successive generations
fitness
The ability of an individual to succeed in the face of environmental pressures such as limited resources, climatic conditions, and interactions with other species
Reproductive Success
the single most important metric in natural selection
Iteroparous
reproduce many times
semelparous
reproduce only once
Life History Theory
explains how organisms budget their limited available energy to fulfill competing demands over the course of their lifetimes to maximize their total lifetime
Components of Life History
Growth, Somatic Maintenance, Reproduction
Growth
the energy invested to increase in body size
Somatic Maintenance
upkeep of the body
Reproduction
energy put into forming offspring
Phylogeny
the relationship of organisms to each other based on their evolutionary histories
Phylogenetic Trees
show the relationship between organisms
cladogram
most common type of phylogenic tree that represents the pattern of ancestry without indicating the relative lengths of time that have passed on each branch of the tree
rooted tree
trees that derive from a common ancestor
branch point
represents a change occurring between the different organisms
basal taxon
lineage of organisms that branch off the common ancestor but does not branch any further
sister taxa
two lineages that come from the same branch point
polytomy
when a branch has more than two lineages coming off of a branch point
shared ancestral character
a characteristic found in all the organisms that will be in your tree
shared derived characteristics
traits that have evolved at some point but are not shared by all organisms in the tree
outgroup
an organism or group that has experienced no evolutionary change since it diverged from the ancestral group
maximum parsimony
indicates that the simplest way is probably how evolution occurred
most parimonious
the topology that requires the least amount of changes
All Animals are….
eukaryotic, multicellular, and heterotrophic organisms
No True Tissue
(Parazoa) do not have specialized tissue
True Tissue
have specialized tissues
Eumetazoa
“true animals”
asymmetry
(Parazoans) no body symmetry