Lesson 3.3: Life's Diversity Flashcards

1
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Life’s diversity exploded _______

A

500 MYA

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2
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The paleozoic era lasted from

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543 - 248 MYA

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3
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The Paleozoic era is where the

Periods under this era

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More complex eukaryotic cell arise
first vertebrate on land is formed.

Cambrian
Ordovician
Silurian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Permian

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4
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Cambrian period period lasted from _______ MYA.

Highlights

A

543-490
Invertebrate animals flourished

sponges, jellyfish, worms
first animals with hard bodies.

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5
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Life on land developed during

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Ordovician and Silurian periods

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6
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first land plants and vertebrates appeared during the

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Ordovician period (490-443 MYA).

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7
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Silurian period (______ MYA) highlights

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443-417
first plants with vascular tissue arose,

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8
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highlights of Devonian period (________) MYA

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417-354

age of fishes, fishes with skeleton

mass extinction of sea life took place.

fish with powerful fins and lung move onto land.

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9
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highlights of carboniferous period ______MYA

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354-290 MYA
-age of amphibians
-Ferns and early seed plants flourished.

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10
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highlights Permian period _______MYA

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290-248
-ended with the largest mass extinction in due to global climate (inc co2, deplete of O)

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11
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Mesozoic era _____MYA, highlights

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Age of reptiles
248-65 MYA

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12
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the first birds, mammals, and flowering plants developed

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Jurassic period (206-144 MYA)

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13
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Cretaceous period

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(144-65)
-great biological change
-mass extinction of dinosaurs due to asteriod

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14
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Cenozoic era

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65 MYA-present
-AGE OF MAMMALS

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15
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During the ____ and _____ marsupials, monotremes, and placental mammals became common.

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paleogene (65-23) and neogene (23-2.58)

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16
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Ice ages went during this epoch
______ yrs agom

A

Pleistocene epoch.

17
Q

homosapeins appeared _____ yrs ago

A

200,000

18
Q

Origin and diversification of life

A

organic monomers formed macro and protocells, forming prokaryotes

forms archaea, and bacteria, —–> infolding, endosymbiosis, —> fungi, plants animals, protisr

19
Q

humans and placental mammals are called
They formed _______

A

primates
60 MYA

20
Q

Adapted physical characteristics of primates (3)

A

opposable thumbs, long arms,
upright locomotion

21
Q

difference between humans and other primates

A

-larger brain
-great depth perception
-field view 160 degrees

22
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three main lineages of primates

A

Proximians, Monkeys, and Hominoids.

23
Q

common ancestor of primates have (4)

A

opposable thumbs, flat nails, binocular vision, and larger brains.

24
Q

skeleton comparison between primates: apes, gorillas, and hominins

A

Apes: brachiaton (swinging of arms)
Gorillas: knuckle-walking (longer forearms)
Hominins: bipedalism

25
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famous hominin fossil discovered in Ethiopia.

She is just like a fusion

A

Lucy
Orangutan. Gorilla, and Chimpanzee.

26
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Hominin fossils fall into four groups:

A

-Ardipithecus, 4.4 MYA
-Australopithecus, 4-2.5 MYA
-Paranthropus, an evolutionary dead end, 3-1.5 MYA.
-Homo, 2.5 MYA-present.

27
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features of a recent homo species associated to their diet

A
  • smaller teeth, lighter jaws, and lighter musculature
28
Q

According to mitochondrial DNA humans evolved in ____ and lived together and migrated to other continent ____ yrs ago

A

africa at 1.8 MYA to Europe, 200,000

29
Q

Human is the fusion of all ______ as we have the most identical chromosomes

A

apes

30
Q

Humans ____ , ____, and ____ have almost identical chromosomes

A

chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans

31
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but how do we distinguish from apes?

A

the ability to speak language