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What did Aristotle believe in?

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Believed in the Scala of Naturae & Believed that nonliving and living things are “fixed” and do not change over time. He also did not believe that species could go extinct/created.

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Describe the Scala of Naturae

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  • A ladder like classification of nature from simplest –> complex.
  • Humans were at the top of ladder and even inorganic matter was included (fire, water, wood, etc)
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What did Geoges Cuvier believe in & what was he the founder of?

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He believed in the Theory of Catastrphe & he was the founder of Paleontology

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What did the Thoery of Catastrophism establish

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That extinction was a fact

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What 2 things did Jean Baptise believe in?

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Principle of Use and Disuse & Inheritance of Accquired Traits

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Describe the Principle of Use and Disuse

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The more an organism uses a trait the more it grows in that creatures lifetime. The less likely they use it the more likely it will be erased from a generation.

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Describe the Inheritance of Acquired Traits

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An Organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent accquired through use and disuse

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What was Lamarck’s 3 Contributions?

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1) All species change over time
2) New Characteristics are passed from one generaton to the next
3) Organisms change in response to their enviroment

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What did Charles Darwin do on his voyage?

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Observed that plants and animals adapt to their own enviroments

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List the 3 influences on Darwin:

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1) ) Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell:
2) Personal Observations
3) Essay on the Principle of the Population by T.Malthus

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Describe natural selection

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A mechanism for evolution

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What are the 4 requirements for Natural Selection?

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1) Natural Variation
2) Heritability
3) Differential Survival
4) Differential Reproduction

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What is Natural Variation?

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Individuals within the same species have variation

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What is Heritability?

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The only traits that can be inherited by offspring are ones that are genetic

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What is Differential Survival?

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Many offspring do not survive due to low resources

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What is Differential Reproduction

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All organisms can produce more offspring than the enviroment can support

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What is the Malthus Principle

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Every generation more offspring than the envroment can support

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What was On the Origin of Species by Mean of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin about?

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Proposed that all diversity of life is driven by Natural Selection & that all life on Earth is related to and evolved form a common ancestor

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Is there a goal for natural selection?

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no

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Does natural selection create?

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No, it only modifies & selects the best traits

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List the 5 pieces of evidence for

evolution

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1) Fossils
2) Biogeogrpahical
3) Anatomical
4) Similarities in Embryos
5) Biochemical (DNA)

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What can you prove with fossils?

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You can trace the evolutionary ancestry of an organism

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Describe Biogeography in reference to fossils

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Provides info on how different groups may have evolved due to the geographic distributions of animals and plants

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Describe anatomical in reference to fossils

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All vertebrea forelimbs contain the same sets of bones ( Homologous Structures )

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Describe the similarties in embroys in reference to fossils

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Embryos of different species look & develop similarily

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Describe Biochemicals in reference to fossil s

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All organisms have a degree of similarity in the DNA base structures

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What is MIcroevolution?

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Accumulation of small genetic changes within a single population

Microevolution takes place within a short period of time & below a species level
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What is a population?

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A group of organisms among the same species in the same geographic area

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When do you know when a population has evolved?

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When there is a change in the allele frequency

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What is a species

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A group of organisms that can interbreed, reproduce, and share a genetic heritance naturally

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What is a gene?

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Code for DNA that can code for a characteristic

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What is an allele?

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Variations of a gene that you get from both parents

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What is a genotype?

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Genetic makeup of an individual

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What is a phenotype?

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Physical expression of a gene

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What is a gene pool?

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Total aggregation of genes in a populatjon at any one time

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Derscribe the Hardy - Weinberg Equilibrium

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The genetic variation in a populatjon will remain constant from one generation to the next in the absence of disturbing factors

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What is the purpose of the Hardy - Weinerbg Equil?

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To test whether or not a population is evolving

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List the 5 conditions for the Hardy - Weinberg Equil

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  • 1) No mutatons
  • ‘2) No geneflow
  • 3) Population is infinetly large
  • 4) No Natural Selection
  • 5) Random mating
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List the 5 causes for Microevolution

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1) Genetic Mutation
2) Gene Flow
3) Non- Random mating
4) Genetic Drift
5) Natural selection

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Describe Genetic Mutation

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Changes in the gene causes a change in allele frequency

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What are the 3 options a mutation can be?

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lethal, neautral, or beneficial

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Describe Gene Flow

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When organisms move from one place to another ( the immigrants reproduce and introduce new allleles into the population)

43
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What is non-random mating

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When indivduals do not choose their mates randomly and have a preference

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What is Assertive MAting?

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Individuals tend to mate with those with the same phenotype

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What is Sexual Selection

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Males compete for their right to reproduce & females choose the males with a particular preference

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What is Genetic Drift

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Changes in the alllele frequency due to chance & tends to reduce genetic variability

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What are the two causes for Genetic Drift?

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1) Bottleneck effect

2) Founder Effect

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What is the bottleneck effect?

Give an example

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An event that prevents the majority of genotypes from entering the next generation

ex) Disaes, starvation, drought

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What is the founder effect?

describe it

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Few individuals establish a new popualtion & only carry a fraction of alleles

Moving from one place to another where they have never been before

50
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What are the 3 types of natural selection?

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1) Directional Selection
2) Stabalizing Selection
3) Disruptive Selection

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Describe Directional Selection

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When an extreme phenotype is the best fit

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Describe Stabalizing Selection

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When an intermediate phenotype is the best fit

53
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Describe Disruptive Selection

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Two or more extreme phenotypes of better than the intermediate

54
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Which type of natural selection is the least common in nature

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Disruptive Selection

55
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What are the 3 implications of conservation

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1) Endangered species may experience a decrease in genetic diversity
2) Small number of individuals used for captive breeding programs may not actually represent the entirity of a species genetic diverity
3) Recovered populations may still be less resistant to cope with enviromental changes

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