BIOLOGY UVU EXAM 1 Flashcards
When did the origin of photosynthesis and abundant oxygen begin to form in the atmosphere?
Around 2 billion
When did earth form?
4.6 billion years ago
Long ago what did earths atmosphere contain because of volcanic eruptions?
Water vapor and chemicals specifically (nitrogen, nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide)
What is the most common gas in the atmosphere?
carbon dioxide
Today what kinds of substances do we have in our atmosphere?
nitrogen, oxygen, and small amounts of carbon dioxide
What was the building block of life because of the old atmosphere?
Small organic molecules
What did oprain and haldane hypothesized ?
That the early atmosphere was a reducing environment
What did Millers experiment produce?
Purines, pyrimidines, sugars, and amino acids
What was the first genetic material?
RNA
What are ribozymes?
A RNA molecules that is auto-catalytic
What did early genetic material form and what did they produce?
They formed a RNA world, and produced the first genes
Why did RNA switch to DNA as the base genetic material?
Because DNA is more stable and makes fewer mistakes (mutations)
How does radiometric dating work?
A parent isotope decays into a daughter isotope at a constant rate. Then the ratio is determined by the loss of the parent isotope and the increase in the daughter isotope
What does half-life mean?
The time required for half the parent isotope to decay
MAKE A COPY OF THIS ON YOUR TEST
International chronostratigraphic chart
What makes the Ediacaran period so special?
It had the oldest animal fossils with no skeletons dating back to 635 to 542 million years ago
What happened in the Cambrian time period? and when did it take place
All the major phyla of animals appeared within a few million years of each other 542- 488 million years ago)
When all the major phyla of animals came to be on the Cambrian time period. What was this event called? and when did it take place?
The Cambrian radiation (530-510 million years ago
What evidence did the Cambrian radiation provide?
the first predator prey interactions
what things colonized the land first? And what time period?
Plants did then arthropods and 475 million years ago
When did tetrapod’s evolve into fish?
365 million years ago
What period had a large amount of oxygen in the atmosphere?
The carboniferous period
Why do we need the liquid in the second layer of the earth?
For earths magnetic field
When did Pangea form? And did it effect anything?
250 million years ago and it had great effects especially with interactions between species and climate change, costal habits
Does geology have a great influence on the evolution of life?
Yes it does
What percentage of all life has been extinct?
99%
What is extinction?
the obliteration of all individuals of a species or groups of species, plant or animal.
What happens to every species that evolves? And is extinction a natural part of the evolutionary process?
They eventually become extinct and yes extinction is a natural part of the process
What are the 10 theories of mass extinction?
- Changes in global and regional climatic patterns
- Volcanic flows over large areas and massive super volcanos worldwide volcanism
- Disease continents coming together with new diseases in different populations
- Plants evolving
- Change in ocean and freshwater
- Plate tectonics
- Global marine regressions and transgressions
- Impact theory- meteorite or comet
- Human interaction
- Continents separating
What is the K-t impactor (meteor)?
The impact (meteor) that was 300,00 years before the extinction of the dinosaurs
What is adaptive radiations?
When organisms colonize new environments with little competition
What would have Linnaeus have done to the Hawaiian Silverswords?
He would have classified them as a whole other different species
What contributes to mass extinction?
Climate, Meteorites, Volcanism, Air temperature, ocean acidification. water oxygen levels, sea level ride, atmospheric circulation
What is heterochrony?
A change in the timing of developmental events
What are homeotic genes?
Determine basic features in an animal or human (EX legs and wings on a bird)
What is the name of a type of homeotic gene provide positional information in animals?
Hox genes,
How did invertebrates evolve into vertebrates?
Because of altercations of their hox genes
Duplications of Hox genes have occurred in what lineage?
The vertebrate lineage
Why were the hox gene duplicates so important? And how?
It made new characteristics for new vertebrates. Well the older vertebrates had fewer hox genes and with the duplications modern vertebrates have the genetic potential to have a complex body
Biological structures tend to do what?
Evolve
What has happened to the eye as it has evolved?
It has evolved from a simple photosensitive cells to independently cells many times
What are exaltations?
structures that evolve in one context but become co-opted for a different function (EX feathers in dinosaurs and birds)
What is monophyletic group?
And ancestorial group that contains all descendants of the ancestorial group
What is the polyphyletic group?
Group excludes the most common recent ancestors of all group members
What ancestorial group/clade is Protista?
Paraphyletic
What is the paraphyletic group?
An ancestorial group that contains some descendants NOT ALL OF THEM
Flying animals are part of what group?
polyphyletic
What is endothermic?
Warm blooded things
What is exothermic?
Cold blooded things
Protists are the informal name for what?
the kingdom of unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes
Protists are what kind of clade (poly, para, mono)?
A paraphyletic group
Is Protista valid as a kingdom?
NO ONLY PROTISTS
Are protists super diverse or no?
YES THEY ARE
Are protists usually unicellular or multicellular or colonial?
Usually unicellular but there are some multicellular and colonial protists
Are protists eukaryotes or prokaryotes?
Eukaryotes
What do photoautotrophs contain that make them special?
chloroplasts
How to heterotrophs gain energy?
eat organic molecules or larger food particles
What process do protists diversity come from?
endosymbiosis
What is endosymbiosis?
Where one organism lives inside the other organism
What structure inside of a cell evolved from an aerobic prokaryote? and by what process?
the mitochondria and the process was endosymbiosis
What organism evolved from a photosynthetic cyanobacterium? and by what process?
Plastids and the process was endosymbiosis
How do you characterize the clade excavate? and what groups come from the clade excavate?
characterized by its cytoskeleton the groups are diplomonads, parabasalids, and euglenozoans
Define diplomonads and define some characteristics
- Lack plastids and have modified mitochondria (called mitosomes)
- Derive energy anaerobically by glycolysis
- Have two equal sized nuclei and flagella
- Often have parasites