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Evolution Flashcards

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Descent with Modification

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Charles Darwin, species are descendants of ancestral species that were different from present day species

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Evolution

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change in genetic composition of a population

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What does Evolution measure?

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Change in allele frequency

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What ship did Charles Darwin travel on?

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The beagle

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What did Aristotle classify organisms into?

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Scale of Nature

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Carolus Linneaeus

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develop binomial naming system and Hierarchy

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Hierarchy

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Species – genus – family – order – class – phylum - kingdom

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What was also part of Darwins ideas

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fossils in different layers of rock

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Lamarck’s Evolution

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compared fossils to present day species and discovered line between them

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Lamarck’s Principle

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use and disuse, inheritance

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Use and disuse

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parts of an organism used a lot get bigger and stronger

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Inheritance

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inheritance of these special characteristics

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What was flawed about Lamarck’s Principle

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acquired traits can not be passed down to the next generation

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Natural Selection

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individuals with certain traits leave more off spring than other individuals with out that trait

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Adaptations

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Characteristics of organisms that enhance their survival and reproduction in specific environments

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4 Observations that led to natural selection

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  1. members in the population vary in traits
  2. traits are inherited by off spring
  3. Species are able to produce more off spring than the environment can support
  4. many of these offsprings do not survive
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Artificial Selection

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Human modification of species over many generations by selecting and breeding individuals that possess desired traits

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Two summary of Natural Selection

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  • Over time natural selection can lead to increase matching of organisms and environment
  • Changes in environment could lead to new species via natural selection
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Evidence of Evoulation

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  1. Direct Observation of Evolutionary Change
  2. Fossils can show evolutionary change over time
  3. Homology
  4. Biogeography
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20
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Law of Succession

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Living relatives of fossil species

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Fossil Evidence

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Law of Succession, Transitional Forms

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Homology

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Characteristics present in ancestral organism are altered in its descendants

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Homologous Structures

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Variations of structural theme present in a common ancestor

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Vestigial structures

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Lost most or all of past function

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Convergent evolution

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independent evolution of similar features in different lineages

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Evolutionary tree

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diagram that reflects evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms

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27
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Cell Division

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All cells must have come from another cell

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28
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Why do cells split

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Reproduction, growth and development, tissue renewal

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Cell Cycle

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Life of a cell from when formed to when it divides into two cells

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How does most cell division result from

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Indentical sister cells, split DNA equally among two resulting cells

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31
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Two types of Reproduction

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Asexual Reproduction, Sexual reproduction

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Asexual Reproduction

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creation of genetically identical offspring from one parent

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Sexual Reproduction

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creation of offspring by fusion of sperm and egg

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34
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Binary Fission

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Replication of DNA split into two daughter cells

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35
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Prokaryotes

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Single long DNA molecule

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36
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Eukaryotes

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DNA packaged into chromosomes(made from chromatin DNA and proteins)

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How are Chromosomes distrupted during cell division

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long thin fiber when cell is not dividing, Chromosomes begin to condense after DNA replication

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What are sister Chromatids

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Pairs of indentical chromosomes

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Where are the sister Chromatids joined together at

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Centromere

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Centromere

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Specialized region where two sister chromosomes are attached

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Phases of Cell Cycle

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Interphase, Mitosis, Cytokinesis

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Interphase

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Cell growth and duplication of DNA

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Mitosis

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Division of the nucleus, DNA

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Cytokinesis

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Division of the Cytoplasm

in animals pinching of plasma membrane, in plants form of cell plate during telophase

45
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What is 90% of the cell cycle

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Interphase

46
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what are the three Subphases of Interphase

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G1 Phase, S phase, G2 Phase

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G1 Phase

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first gap, cell growth

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S phase

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Synthesis, Chromosomes duplicated

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G2 Phase

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Second Gap, cell growth

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Miotic Spindle

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FIbers of microtubles and proteins, moves DNA by shortening and lengthening the mircotubles

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Centrosome

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containing material to organize cells microtubles, in cell division it splits into two centrosomes

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What are the Stages of Mitosis

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Prophase, Prometaphase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase

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Cell Size

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Cell divide when they roughly double in size

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Restriction Point

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check points in the cell cycle where the cell decides whether or not to proceed

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Heredity

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transmission of traits from one generation to the next

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Variation

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difference among members of the same species

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Genetics

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scientific study of heredity and hereditary variation

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Genes

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hereditary units coded information, program the specific traits organisms develop

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Chromosomes

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unit of heredity, where genes are located

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Somatic Cells

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those not associated with gamete formation

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Homologous Chromosomes

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pair of chromosomes with same length, centromere position

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Diploid Cells

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cell with two sets of chromosomes

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what does “n” stand for when referring to chromosomes

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it equals number of chromosomes in a single set

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Haploid Cells

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Cell with one set of chromosomes

65
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what is the life cycle

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generation to generation sequence of stages in the reproductive history of an organsim

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Meiosis

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Modified type of cell division it results in haploid cells

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Cross Over

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homologous chromosomes exchange sections of chromosomes

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Independent Assortment of Chromosomes

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Random orientation of homologous pairs during metaphase of meiosis

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Chiasma

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Region where nonsister chromatids exchange genetic material

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Random Fertilization

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sexual reproduction can lead to a large number of possible genetic combos

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Three parts of Sexual Reproduction

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Random fertilization, independent assortment of chromosomes, cross over

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Pleiotropy

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Gene codes has more than one Phenotypic effect

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Epistasis

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gene at one locus alters phenotypic expression at second locus

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Polygenic Inheritance

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additive affect of one or more genes on a phenotype

75
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Recessively inherited disorders

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sickle cell, albinism

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Dominantly inherited disorders

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huntingtons diease and achondroplasia

77
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what is the chromosome theory of inheritance

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genes have location along chromosomes, undergo segregation and independent assortment

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Nondisjunction

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pair of homologous chromosomes do not move apart in meiosis I or sister chromatids fail to separate in meiosis II

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Monosomic

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missing one copy of a chromosome

80
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Trisomic

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an extra third copy of chromosome

81
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polyploidy

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more than two sets of chromosome

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Triploidy

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three sets of a chromosome

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tetraploidy

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four sets of a chromosome

84
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alterations to chromosome structure

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caused by errors in meiosis or damaging agents cause breaking of a chromosome

85
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Four types of changes in chromosome structure

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deletion, duplication, Inversion, translocation

86
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XXY

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male sex organs are small and some female body characteristics

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XYY

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some what taller than average

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XXX

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indistinguishable from XX

89
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Microevolution

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evolution below a species level, change in allele frequency in a population

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Macroevolution

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evolution above species level, includes origins of new species level

Biology Ch 1-4 (4 decks)

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