Evolution Disease 1 Flashcards

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Lundehund

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scramble up cliffs to find puffin nesting burrows on Lofoten islands in Norway

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Health problems in prebred are now common as a result of inbredding which you know from pop genetics (delterious alleles)

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Artificial Selection

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human mediated evolution

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Intentional

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desired traits are selected by breeding organisms with those traits
- domesticated animnals
- domesticated crops

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Unintentional

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evolution can also occur in response to other human activities
- hunting/fishing
- infection disease
- agricultural pests

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Non communicable diseaases

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combination of genetic and environmental cause cannot be transferred between indiviudals

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Genetic disorders

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not diseases

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Infectious diseases

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caused by pathogens like viruses, protists, and bacteria.

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Penicilin

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first antibiotic to be idolated

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Antibiotic resistance

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  • high mutation rates
  • Strong selection
  • Fast generation tomes
  • Horiztonal gene transfer
    high transmission to a new host
  • Bacteria can evolved resistance and can evolve ina single patient
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Contributors to antibotic resistance

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one solution is decreasing the rate of antibiotic resistance maybe be to lower the rate of antibotics used.

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Many of our internal bacteria have important functions

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Antibiotics are relatively non specific so they reproduce beneficial bacteria too.

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