Midterm 1 Flashcards
What are the characteristics of living things?
- Chemical uniqueness
- Complexity and hierarchical organization
- Reproduction
- Possession of a genetic program
- Growth
- Metabolism
- Environmental interaction
- Movement
What is a codon?
A sequence of three nucleotides that encodes for an amino acid
What does define the correspondence between sequence of nucleotides in DNA and sequences of amino acids in proteins?
Genetic code
Who are autotrophs?
Plants, algae, many bacteria and some unicellular eukaryotes
Does all bacteria are heterotrophs?
No
Does all unicellular eukaryotes are autotrophs?
No
Do single ocelled organisms undergo developement?
Yes, they still grown (ex: phase, divisions)
What is the study of organism interaction with the environment?
Ecology
What are the ways that plans move?
- Shoots grow
- Flowers open and close
- Leaves turn towards the sun
- Climbing plants have tendrils that reach out until they have something to grip onto
When did the earth formed?
4.6 billion years ago
Was there atmosphere on early earth?
No, neither soil or oceans.
When did life formed and from what?
4 billion years ago from primordial soup
What is the Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis?
Organic compounds characteristic of life formed slowly over time from simple molecules present in the prebiotic environment.
Who came out with the primordial soup theory?
Oparin and Haldane
What were the components of early atmospheres?
- Water vapor
- Hydrogen gas
- Ammonia
- Carbon dioxide
- Methane
- LIMITED oxygen
Who tested the primordial soup theory?
Miller and Urey
What produced the Miller and Urey experience?
Carbon dioxide was transformed into organic compounds such as amino acid, urea, and fatty acids, essential components of life.
What were the compounds and energetical source in Miller and Urey experience?
- Water vapor
- Ammonia
- Methane
- Hydrogen
energetical source: electrical sparks
What term describe one part soluble in water and another part insoluble in water?
Amphiphilic
What is the second stage in origins of life?
Formation of polymers (e.g: proteins and nucleic acids)
Was the early atmosphere reducing or oxidizing?
Strongly reducing (lack of oxygen, was giving electrons)
Could life on earth start again?
No. Present atmosphere is too oxidizing.
Molecules necessary for life can’t be synthesized outside cells because the presence of oxygen make them unstable.
What were the necessary steps for life to occur?
- Simple organic molecules
- Complex organic molecules
- Cells
What is a codon?
A sequence of three nucleotides that encode for an amino acid
What is the best estimate of number of species on Earth?
8 million species of eukaryotes.
What describes the formation of complex organic molecules from simpler inorganic molecules through chemical reaction?
Chemical evolution (first step in the development of life)
What describes the process by which changes in the genetic composition of populations of organisms occur in response to environmental changes?
Organic evolution
Who came independently from Darwin with the conception of natural selection?
Wallace
True or False?
Natural Selection was accepted before Evolution as a theory.
False
What are the foundations of evolution theory?
- Geology: history of life is long and changing
- Economics (Malthus): population pressures, human populations grow faster than resource
- Embryology: Similarities between organisms
What is Natural Selection?
The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What explains adaptation?
Natural selection
What describes a change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment?
Adaptation
What is the process by which features acquire functions for which they were not originally adapted or selected?
Exaptation
What use is a rudimentary feather?
Thermoregulation
Is evolution random?
No. Genetic variability has a random aspect because mutations are random. However, the force that drives evolution is natural selection and it’s not random.
True or false?
Most mutations are favorable.
False. Most mutations are unfavourable or neutral.
What are the evolutionary theories accepted as having universal application throughout the living world?
- Perpetual change
- Common descent
- Multiplication of species
What are the evidence for common descent?
- Conserved genetics (codon usage among living things)
2. Homology
Define homology.
Similarity of parts/organs of different organisms caused by evolutionary derivation from a corresponding part/organ in a common ancestor.
What defines the developmental history of an organism throughout its entire life?
Ontogeny
What defines the evolutionary history of a species?
Phylogeny
Do ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny?
No, but it does provide evidence for common descent.
True or false?
Behavioral factors can be a biological factor that prevent interbreeding.
True
What are the two ways that allopatric speciation can occur?
Vicariant speciation and Founder effect.
What speciation describes the ancestral population geographically divided and isolated subpoplations evolve reproductive barriers between them?
Allopatric speciation.
True or false?
In vicariant population, fragments of the ancestral population are left intact.
True
What describes a speciation from diverging lineages co-occupy a geographic area?
Sympatric speciation.
Different individuals within a species become specialized for occupying different components of the environment.
Which type of speciation might iguanas floating leads to ?
Allopatric: founder effect.
What type of speciation might geographic separation of caribbean leads to?
Allopatric: vicariant
What type of speciation eurasian blackcap is an example of? Is it due to reproductive or geographic barriers?
It’s sympatric speciation because it’s on the same land, and it’s reproductive barrier.
True or false?
Gradualism is not supported by the fossil record.
True
Describes gradualism.
Theory like what small changes accumulate slowly over time.
What describes the pertains to evolutionary changes in frequencies of variant forms of genes within population?
Microevolution
What describes the pertains to evolution on a long timescale?
Macroevolution
What are the patterns in macroevolution?
- Stasis
- Lineage splitting
- Extinction
What are the evolutionary fates for every species?
- Give rise to new species
2. Become extinct
What is a punctuated equilibrium?
Long period of stasis, punctuated by a brief event of speciation
How long does a species survive on average?
5-10 million years (stasis)
How long lasts speciation on average?
10 000 - 100 000 years (event of speciation)
Since how long the coelacanths exist?
80 million years
In what way does the metaphoric tree of life fall appart?
- Branches are not equal
- No central trunk
- No directionality
- Some line goes from one branch to the other
True or false?
Character similarity resulting from common ancenstry is the definition of homology.
True
What name do we give to non-homologous similarities that may be found in various organisms?
Homoplasy
True or false?
Characters that build up the evolutionary tree can be behavioural
True
What defines the branching diagram showing the inferred evolutionary relationship among various biological species?
Phylogenetic tree
What defines the diagram used in cladistics to show evolutionary relationship between organisms?
Cladogram
What is a clade?
A unit of evolutionary common descent that includes ancestral lineage and all descendents.
Defines character
Organismal feature that varies between species
What defines all other variant forms of the character that arose later within the group?
A derived character
What type of clade defines the most recent common ancestor and some but not all descendants of that ancestor?
Paraphyletic clade
What type of clade defines a most recent common ancestor that is not included ?
Polyphyletic clade
Defines taxonomy
Study of the principles of scientific classification, systematic ordering and naming of organisms
What is the fundamental way that we classify organisms in biology?
It’s based on evolutionary relationships
What is the science of classification of organisms based on common evolutionary descent?
Systematics
Who is the Father of taxonomy?
Linneaus
What are the 5 kingdoms in the 5 kingdoms system?
- Metazoa
- Plantae
- Fungi
- Protista
- Monera
What are the 6 kingdoms system?
- Metazoa
- Plantae
- Fungi
- Protista
- Bacteria
- Archea
Which kingdoms are also domains?
Bacteria and archea
What is the simple definition for species?
Group of organisms that are capable of producing a fertile offspring
What name do we give to offspring produced by mating of individuals from two different species?
Interspecific hybrid
What are the requirements biologists agree to define a species?
- Individual descend from a common ancestral population
- Reproductive compatibility
- Genotypic and phenotypic cohesion
What is the sexual reproduction?
Fusion of 2 gametes
True or false?
Asexual reproduction doesn’t exist in vertebrate
False, it is rare but it does exist.
Does asexual reproduction involve gametes?
No.
What are the advantages of asexual reproduction?
Quick and energy efficient
True or false?
Sexual reproduction takes about three time as long as asexual reproduction in species that do both?
False, twice as long
What is the phenomenon describes by the accumulation of deleterious mutations?
Muller’s Ratchet
What is the Muller’s ratchet?
The accumulation of deleterious mutation
What is the disadvantages of asexual reproduction?
The accumulation of deleterious mutations
What are the advantages of sexual reproduction?
Ability to mix and match (more novel genotypes)
What are the disadvantages of sexual reproduction?
- Energetically costly
2. Males do not directly produce offspring
True or false?
The main disadvantages of sexual reproduction is the energetically cost.
False.
The main disadvantage is that males do not directly produce offspring
What type of asexual reproduction is common among bacteria and protozoa?
Binary fission
What type of asexual reproduction occurs in hydra?
Budding
Does gemmulation occur in sponges?
Yes
Fragmentation occurs in what species?
In many anemones and sea stars
What type of reproduction describes an embryo develops from unfertilized egg?
Parthenogenesis
Define parthenogenesis
Embryo develops from unfertilized egg, sperm may activate but not fuse with egg
Are monoecious organisms hermaphroditic?
Yes
T/F
There is no monoecious vertebrates.
False
Some fishes are.
T/F
In oviparous eggs, the fertilization is external.
False
It can be internal or external
Does ovoviviparous fertilization internal?
Yes
From where does come derive nourishment in ovoviviparous eggs?
From yolk
What is the organic vessel where the embryo develops?
The egg
What is the female reproductive/germ cell?
The ovoum
T/F
Gamete can be diploid
False
T/F
There is no organelles in eggs
False
There is cytoplasm, nucleus, organelles and yolk.
The vegetal pole is where there is the most…
yolk
The animal pole is where there is the most..
cytoplasm
What type of eggs do we have in echinoderms and molluscs?
Isolecithal, like in mammals.
What type of egg describes an abundance of yolk densely concentrated at a vegetal pole?
Telolecithal
Lots of yolk exhibit X development
direct (telolecithal)
Little yolk exhibit X development
indirect (isolecithal, mesolecithal)
What is indirect development?
Passes through larval stage capable of feeding itself
Undergoes metamorphosis
T/F
Cell division occurs more easily in yolk than in cytoplasm.
False
Cell division occurs more easily cytoplasm than in yolk.
What is the type of cleavage that defines a complete and approximately equal divisions of cells?
Holoblastic
What is the type of cleavage that describes a division of cell restricted to a small area of egg?
Meroblastic
Associate the type of eggs with there division
Holoblastic = isolecithal and mesolecithal Meroblastic = centrolecithal and telolecithal
What is the name of the zygote at the end of the cleavage?
Blastula, made out of blastomeres
What is gastrulation?
It converts the blastula into a two or a three-layered embryo
How many germ layer does a blastula have?
1
What is the name of the opening cavity in the blastula?
The blastopore
What is the name of the process where one side of the blastula bends inward ?
Invagination
What is the name of the outerlayer cells of lining blastocoel?
Ectoderm
What is the name of the innerlayer cells linning gut?
Endoderm
T/F?
All sponges have only one germ layer.
False, some are diploblastic
What is the first event in organogenesis and from which tissue?
Formation of nervous system from ectoderm.
What is the first functional organ and from what tissue?
Hearth, from mesoderm
What is the name of the cavity completely suronded by mesoderm?
Coelom
From what tissue does the coelom in schizocoely form?
Mesoderm
From what tissue does the coelom in enterocoely form?
Endoderm
What are the two types of coelom formation?
Schizocoely and enterocoely
What are the two types of specification?
Cytoplasmic and conditional
What describes the capacity of some cell to evoke a developmental response in other cells?
Induction
Cytoplasmic specification leads to what kind of development?
Mosaic
Conditional specification leads to what kind of development?
Regulative
Can individual blastomere in cytoplasmic specification produce a whole embryo?
No
Do all metazoa have the presence of blastula and gastrula stages?
Yes
What is the name of a free-swimming ciliated marine larvae characteristic of most molluscs and marine worms?
Trocophore
Protostomes are divided in which two major classes?
Lophotrochozoa and Ecdysozoa
Does ecdysozoa ehibit spiral cleavage?
Some but not all.
What kind of cleavage occurs in most deuterostomes?
Radial cleavage
What kind of development do most lophotrochozoans protostomes undergo?
Mosaic development
Platyhelminthes are more likely too undergo what kind of development?
Mosaic
Echinodermata are more likely to undergo what kind of development?
Regulative
T/F
All deuterostomes are ceolomate
T
T/F
All metazoa are multicellular
T
What is the name that we give to plant-like unicellular eukaryotes?
Protophyta
Are protozoa from the same ancestor?
No, they are not monophyletic.
What is a protozoa?
An animal-like unicellular eukaryotes
Protozoa font partis de quel kingdom?
Protista
What kind of group are protozoa?
Paraphyletic
What are the disadvantages of being unicellular?
- Limited size
- Shorter life span
- No division of labour
What are the advantages of being unicellular?
- Rapid reproduction
2. Minimal resources required
Cilia and flagella are refered to as?
Undulipodia
What are the two types heterotrophs can be?
- Holozoic
2. Saprozoic
What is a feeder that ingest visible food particle?
Holozoic
What is a feeder that ingest food in a soluble form?
Saprozoic
Where does phagocytosis occur in amoebas?
Anywhere along the membrane
Where does the phagocytosis occur in many unicellular eukaryotes?
Cytostome
Where does undigestible matter is expelled in protozoans?
Cytoproct
T/F
All protozoans do asexual reproduction
T
Does some protozoans reproduce sexually?
Oui
What types of asexual reproduction do protozoans?
- Binary fission
- Multiple fission
- Budding
What is are the types of reproduction in paramecium?
Binary fission
What is the name of temporary union of two ciliate protozoa for the purpose of exchanging chromosomal material?
Conjugation
T/F
Apicomplexa is a species
False.
Apicomplexa is a phylum of parasitic protistes.
T/F
All apicomplexa are endoparasites
T
What are the name of parasite that live outside the host?
Ectoparasite
What is the reproducion of apicomplexa?
Both asexual and sexual
What is the phylum of plasmodium malaria?
Apicomplexa
What is the definition of a definitive host?
Where the sexual reproduction occurs, where symbiont matures and reproduce
What is the definition of an intermediate host?
Where the asexual stage occurs, if no sexual reproduction, but in which maturation and sexual reproduction do not occur
What groups are fungi, metazoa, and choanoflagellates?
Opisthokonta
What is the level of organismal complexity in a protozoa ?
Protoplasmic
Name an organism that show colonial cellular complexity.
Choanoflagellates
What is the level of organismal complexity in cnidarians?
Cell-tissue
What is the level of organismal complexity in platyhelminthes
Tissue-organ
True or false?
All fungi are multicellular
FALSE
T/F?
Fungi are chemoheterotrophs.
True
T/F
Fungi do intracellular digestion
F
Extracellular digestion
What is an assemblage of cells embedded in a extracellular matric ECM and supported by a skeleton of minute needlelike spicules and protein?
A sponge
What is an extracellular matric?
A collection of extracellular molecules secreted by support cells that provides strucural and biochemical support to the surronding cells.
What are the tree form of porifera?
Asconoid: flagellated spongeol
Syconoid: flagellated canals
Leuconoid: flagellated chambers
From where does water enter in an asconoid sponges?
Ostia (one ostium)
From where does water is pulled out in a asconoid sponges?
Oscolum
Define the current of water in asconoid sponges
ostia, spongoceol, osculum
What is the water movement in syconoid sponges?
- Incurrent canals
- Prosopyles
- Radial canal
- Apopyles
- Spongocoel
- Osculum
T/F
There is only one osculum in leuconoid.
False
T/F
There is no spongocoel in leuconoid sponges
T
What is the name of epithelial type cells in sponges?
Pinanocytes
Porocytes are cells in what type of sponges
Asconoid
What are the name of flagellated collar cells in sponges?
Choanocytes
What are the cells that move through mesohyl for transport of food and oxygen?
Archaeocyte
What is the major structural protein in ECM of sponges?
Collagen
T/F
All sponges secretes spongin
False
Only demospongiae
T/F
Sponges eat by diffusion
T
T/F
All sponges reproduce sexually and sexually
T
T/F
Most sponges are dioecious
F
Most sponges are monoecious
What kind of aseuxal reproduction do sponges?
- Fragmentation
- Budding
- Gemmulation
What cells are mostly present in gemmules sponges?
Archaeocytes
From what cell sperm and oocytes emerged in sponges?
Choanocytes and sometimes archaeocytes
T/F?
Most sponges are ovoviviparous
F
Most sponges are viviparous. The