Prep101: Cycle 8 Flashcards
Why do we want to determine species, not a hybrid/subspecies/population of a species?
Protection agencies can create stronger legal protection for conservation if you are a species
Give an example of how legal protection got stronger after the proper determination of species
The right whale was re-classified into three species based on genetic differences:
North Atlantic right whale
North Pacific right whale
Southern right whale
What are the species concepts?
Morphological Species Concept
Biological Species Concept
Ecological Species Concept
Phylogenetic Species Concept
Gametic Species Concept
Using mathematical modeling:
How many species are there on earth and in the ocean?
8.7 million
How many species do we discover every year?
~18,000
What is the single common ancestor to all life today?
LUCA
(Last Universal Common Ancestor)
Why is there a hypothesized single common ancestor?
Certain traits are considered universal and shared by all forms of life
True or False:
LUCA was the first form of life
False, life forms could have pre-existed LUCA but they lifely died off and didn’t lead to the present three living groups
List and state:
Qualities shared by all three lineages of life
- Have cells made up of lipids
- Genetic system is based on DNA-heritable code used by all life on Earth
- DNA to RNA to protein transfer of information, same proteins/enzymes do this
- Common system of protein assembly
- ATP; Uses same “energy currency”, generates the same way (electron transport chain with ATP synthase), use glycolysis to generate pyruvate
Fill in the blanks:
Life likely began on this planet on _ ( _ billion years ago
Hydrothermal vent conditions
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List and explain:
Traits shared by the first forms of life
- Unicellular: Prokaryotic (bacteria)
- Anaerobic: No oxygen in atmosphere yet because no photosynthesis
- Autotrophic: Synthesis own organic molecules (a.k.a. food)
- Used chemical energy from vent to fuel Electron Transport Chain and produce ATP
State and describe the characteristics of:
The first domain of life
- Bacteria (4 billion years ago)
- Single celled organisms
- Reproduce asexually by binary fission
- Can carry plasmid DNA
- Have no organelles
State and describe the characteristics of:
The second domain of life
- Archaea (3.5 billion years ago)
- Single celled organisms
- Adapted to extreme environments
- Membrane structures from infolding (nuclear envelope, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), Golgi complex)
State and describe the characteristics of:
The third domain of life
- Eukaryotes (2 billion years ago)
- Mitosis and meiosis
- Mitochondria not like other organelles (has circular DNA, encode own ribosomes/proteins/enzymes, made through binary fission from existing mitochondria, inner membran contains electron transport chain proteins - VERY SIMILAR TO A BACTERIA)
Describe and give a theory of:
Endosymbiosis
- How ancestral prokaryotes merged leading to eukaryotes
- E.x. An archaea cell that took up a bacteria, which became its mitochondria