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Chapter 27- Phylogenies And The History Of Life Flashcards

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Phylogenetic Tree

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A diagram of the ancestor-descendant relationships among populations or species.

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Phylogeny

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The evolutionary history of a group of organisms.

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Branch

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Represents a population through time.

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Nodes/Fork

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Represents the point in time when an ancestral species split into two or more descendant species.

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Tip/Terminal Node

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Represents a group living today or that ended in extinction.

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Phenetic Approach

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Estimates trees based on computing a statistic that summarizes the overall similiarity among populations.

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Cladistic Approach

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Infers trees based on the realizations n that relationships among species can be reconstructed by indentifying shared derived characters.

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Ancestral Trait

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A characteristic that existed in an ancestor.

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Derived Trait

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A trait that is a modified form of the ancestral trait.

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Homology

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When traits are similar due to shared ancestry.

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Homoplasy

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When traits are similar for reasons other than common ancestry.

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Convergent Evolution

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When natural selection favors similar solutions to the problems posed by a similar way of making a living.

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Parsimony

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The most likely explanation or pattern is the one that implies the least amount of change.

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SINE(Short Interspersed Nuclear Element)

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Parasitic gene sequences that occasionally insert themselves into the genomes of mammals.

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Fossil

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A piece of physical evidence from an organism that lived in the past.

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Fossil Record

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The total collection of fossils that have been found throughout the world.

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Paleontologists

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Scientists who study fossils.

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Precambrian Interval

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The interval in between the creation of the Earth and the appearance of most animal groups.

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Cast

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A mold of the remains of an organism.

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Paleozoic Era

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The era in which animals, land plants, and fungi were created and diversified.

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Mesozoic Era

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Began with the end-Permian extinction events and ended with the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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Cenozoic

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Era divided into the Paleogene period and Neogene period. Includes today’s events.

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Adaptive Radiation

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When a single lineage produces many descendant species that live in a wide diversity of habitats and use a wide array of resources.

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Cambrian Explosion

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An event of vast amounts of adaptive radiation during the Cambrian period.

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Fauna

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Collection of animal species.

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Max Extinction

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The rapid extinction of a large number of lineages scattered throughout the tree of life.

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Background Extinction

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The lower, average rate of extinction observed when a mass extinction is not occurring.

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Impact Hypothesis

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The hypothesis that an asteroid struck Earth and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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Hox genes

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Genes that determine organization of the body plan during development.

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Astragalus

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An ankle bone.

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Artiodactyl

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Group of organisms with a pulley-shaped astragalus.

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Burgess Shale Fauna

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The first arthropods.

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Ediacarian Fauna

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Sponges, jellyfish, comb jellies.

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Habitat Bias

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Organisms living in areas where sedimenta are actively being deposited are more likely to form fossils.

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Taxonomic Bias

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Organisms with hard parts are most likely to leave fossil evidence.

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Tissue Bias

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Hard tissues are more likely to be fossilized that soft tissues.

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Abundance Bias

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Species that were abundance are more likely to leave fossil evidence

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Monophyletic Groups/Clade/Lineage

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A group of an ancestral population, all of its descendants, and only those descendants.

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Polytomy

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A node in a phylogeny with more than two descendant lineages.

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Taxon

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Any unit used in the science of biological classification.

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Genetic Distance

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The measure of genetic divergence between species.

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Synapomorphy

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A trait that is shared by species with a common ancestor, and is unique to that lineage and found in no others.

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Shared Derived Characteristics

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A trait evolved in an ancestral species that is shared by all its descendants.

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Fossilization

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The creation of a fossil.

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Permineralized Fossils

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Fossils created when the spaces between cells is replaced by minerals.

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Radiometric Dating

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Type of dating where ratio of parent to daughter radiation atoms is used to exactly date a mineral.

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Molecular Clock

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The theory that some evolutionary changes occur in a certain rate, like a clock.

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Diversification

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The creation of more biodiversity through genetic divergence.

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Ecological Opportunity

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When an organism takes advantage of the lack of competitors and acclimates itself to fit the environment.

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Ecological Niche

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The role and position an organism/species has in its environment.

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Doushantou Microfossils

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Pre Cambrian microfossils of tiny organisms found in China.

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End-Permian Extinction

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Mass extinction that ended the Permian and began the Triassic.

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Iridium

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An element found in large amounts in space, often found in meteor impacts sites.

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Shocked Quartz

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Quartz with a unique structure that forms when under heavy pressure but limited temperature.

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Microtektite

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A tektite, a material mainly made of silica, of less than a millimeter in size.

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