Evo final Flashcards
fossil record
history of earth
6 pros of the fossil record does
discover species
ancestral states
mutation rates
patterns
biogeography
geological events
cons of fossil records
incomplete
why is the fossil record incomplete?
hard to be a fossil and found
radiometric dating
use of chemical signals to determine age of rock (half-life radioactive isotopes)
how old is universe
14 billion
When was precambrian
2500mya- 541 mya
4 time periods to know in order
Precambrian
Palezoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
Palezoic Life
animals diversify in ocean
Mesozoic life
organisms moving onto land, vertebrates
What mass extinction ended the Pre-Cambrian Period
Cambrian Explosion
What were 3 notable Pre-Cambrian Events
First photosynthesis
Last universal common ancestor
Aerobic respiration
When was the palezoic era?
541 mya- 252 mya
Paleozoic life
Green algae, trilobites, arthorpods, bony fishes
Major Paleozoic events
Plants, winged insects, jawed fishes
How did Paleozoic end
Permian Mass extinction
Mesozoic time period
252mya-66mya
3 Mesozoic Periods
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
What happened in Jurrasic
Assembly of Pangaea
2 things that happened in Jurassic Period?
Dinosaurs
Pangaea splits
Thing that happened in cretaceous period?
Angiosperm dominance
Life in Mesozoic
Dinosaurs, mammals, flowering plants
What ended the Mesozoic
KPG extinction event
When cenozoic?
66mya-present
4 things in cenozoic
Bering Land Bridge
Movement of Continents
Ice Age
Evolution of Angiosperms
Life in Cenozoic
Angiosperms, mammoths, mammals (cooled down)
allopatric specation
separated by geographic barrier
vicariance
Barrier forms and separates
dispersal
population moves and becomes distinct (no gene flow)