Evolution And Classification Flashcards

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Early Earth atmosphere

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H20, NH3, CO2, CH4, N2

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Oparin 1930 said that

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Life began in the ocean
— lightning triggered amino acids in the atmosphere
— Rain washed molecules into the ocean

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Miller-Urey Expirment

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Sent an electric current through a mixture of atmospheric gases
Simulated rain and collected mixture in a flask

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Archaebacteria

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3.4 billion years ago
Prokaryotic
Anaerobic
Photosynthesis
Autotroph

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Artificial selection

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Selectively breeding animals with desired traits can create a new breed

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Natural selection

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Organisms that are well adapted to their environment and are more likely to survive

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Adaptations

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Structure, behaviors, or internal processes that enable an organism to respond to environmental factors and live to produce offspring

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Evolution

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Gradual change in species due to the natural selection for adaptations over time

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9
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Cryptic Coloration

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Camouflage

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How does Natural Selection occur? (1)

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More individuals are born then can survive

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How does Natural Selection occur? (2)

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Competition among individuals for survival (Survival of the fittest?)

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How does Natural Selection occur? (3)

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Individuals have different traits (Phenotypes)

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Use and disuse:

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individuals would lose traits that are useful (Jean Bapiste Lamrick)

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14
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Aquired traits onto their offspring/ extinction didnt exist

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Jean Bapiste Lamrick

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15
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Descent with modification

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Modern species must have descended from previous species and these species can change over time. (Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace)

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16
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Coevolution

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“Arms race”
Two species interacting

17
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Genetic drift

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Any change in allele frequency

18
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Founder Effect

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Leaving to make a new population

19
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Bottleneck affect

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Change in number due to natural disaster

20
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Hardy-Weinberg Equlibrium

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Allele frequencies in a population will remain constant over time so long as

  1. Mating is Random
  2. No Mutations
  3. No Natural Selection
  4. Large population size to prevent genetic drift
  5. No gene flow
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Gene flow

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Transfer of gene between neighboring population

22
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Show evolutionary relationships based on similarities between species

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Cladogram

23
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Two species living in the same area, developing similar traits due to environmental pressure

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Convergence

24
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Classified organisms as plants (green and did not move) or animals

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Aristotle

25
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Layers get older the deeper you go

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The Fossil Record

26
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Study of how organisms develops

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Embryology

27
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Study of the body structure
— Darwins main source of evidence

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Anatomy

28
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Structures that are similar because they have a common ancestor

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Homologous structure

29
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Appear similar because they have a similar function but evolved independently
— forms as a result of convergent evolution

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Analogous structures

30
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Structures that have no function in present organisms

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Vestigial Structure

31
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We obtain the same phylogenetic trees using difference in _____ and _____

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DNA, Amino Acids