EvoDevo/animals/model organisms

Question 1

Species evolve slowly with no demarcation, opposed to punctuated equilibrium

Answer 1

Phyletic Gradualism

Question 2

2007 nobel prize in Medicine (Capecchi, Evans, Smith), inbred BALB/cJ and C57BL/6 strains, “Knockout”, “Nude” (can’t produce T cells), Leptin and obesity

Answer 2

Mouse

Question 3

CLASS: hectocolytus, giant squid axon thing, Sepia (Cuttlefish)

Answer 3

Cephalopods

Question 4

David Goldberg, Building block hypothesis, fitness function, DeJong crowding, Elitist operator

Answer 4

genetic algorithms

Question 5

Aliivibrio fischeri, Coelenterazine (Renilla), BRET, LuxA LuxB

Answer 5

Bioluminescence