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Great Chain of Being

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  • Recasting of Aristotle’s Scala Naturae in Judeo-Christian themes
  • Hierarchical organization of all life forms
  • Organisms fixed in position on the chain
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Carl Linnaeus

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  • Swedish botanist; developed comprehensive classification system for all known plants and animals
  • Binomial Nomenclature
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Linnaean System

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Classification system based on similarities among physical characteristics of species

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Taxonomy

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The science of classification

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Taxon (plural: taxa)

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group of organisms in a taxonomy

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Linnaean Hierarchy

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Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order

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Georges-Louis Leclerc (1707-1788)

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French naturalist who proposed species are created via modifications of their original form by environmental factors after creation

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Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)

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  • French naturalist who discovered extinction

- Proposed catastrophism

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Catastrophism

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Fossils represented species that had gone extinct in cataclysms

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)

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Proposed that ‘use and disuse’ of traits is what drove changes in organismal characteristics through time, ultimately resulting in new species

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Principles of Natural Selection

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  1. Traits vary within a population
  2. Traits are heritable
  3. Individuals with traits that allow them to survive and reproduce pass those traits on to the next generation
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James Hutton (1726-1797)

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  • Argued that features of ancient rocks could be explained by processes that were operating today, but happen very slowly
  • Discoveries supported Deep Time (Earth was very old)
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Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

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  • Proposed uniformitarianism; geological processes have always occurred at uniform rates
  • Discoveries supported Deep Time (Earth was very old)
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Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)

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  • Wrote ‘Population’ that emphasized a struggle for existence; populations expand faster than their resources
  • Inspired Darwin’s theory of natural selection
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Natural Selection

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The differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotypes (physical traits)

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‘On the Origin of Species’

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  • Published in 1859; presented evidence that evolution had occurred
  • Explained evolutionary change occurs via natural selection
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Evolution

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Change in the allele frequencies (old: heritable characteristics) of biological populations over successive generations

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Blending Inheritance

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  • 19th century model of inheritance
  • Physical characteristics of offspring were a uniform blend of parents
  • Refuted: After all traits have been ‘blended’ all variation disappears
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Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)

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  • Augustinian monk who worked out the rules governing the inheritance of traits
  • Each trait controlled by single gene
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Genotype

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Genetic signal

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Phenotype

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Physical expression (morphology) of the genotype

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Gene

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Unit of heredity passed from parent to offspring that codes for a particular trait

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Allele

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One or more alternative forms of a gene

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Modern Evolutionary Synthesis

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1) Genes are the units of inheritance
2) Phenotype is distinct from genotype. Phenotypes are outcomes of genetic/environmental factors.
3) Evolution is a change in the genetic structure of populations due to mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection. Individuals do not evolve, populations do.
4) Speciation results from a gradual accumulation of small genetic changes
5) All organisms form a phylogeny that emerged by the branching of common ancestors into diverse lineages via speciation.

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Four forces of evolution

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1) Mutation
2) Gene Flow
3) Genetic Drift
4) Natural Selection

All are stochastic except for natural selection which is deterministic

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Mutation

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Appearance of new alleles

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Point Mutation

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Change in single base pair

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Substitution

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Codon swapped for another codon

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Inversion

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Codon inverted

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Insertion

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Insertion of a single base pair that shifts the entire sequence (frameshift)

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Deletion

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Remove of a single base pair that shifts the entire sequence (frameshift)

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Genetic Drift

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  • Random changes in alllele frequencies
  • Small population sizes
  • Founder effect & bottleneck effect
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Directional Selection

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Selection for one phenotypes over the others causing phenotype frequencies to shift in one direction

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Stabilizing Selection

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Selection against the extremes of the phenotypic distribution

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Sexual Selection

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  • Female choice

- Male-male competition

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Systematics

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The study and classification of organisms to reconstruct their evolutionary relationships with one another

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Linnaean Taxonomy

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Reflects phylogeny

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Clade

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A group of organisms that is monophyletic (composed of a common ancestor and all its descendants)

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Monophyletic Taxon

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Includes all the descendants of a particular common ancestor

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Polyphyletic Taxon

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Includes species that do not exclusively share a common ancestor

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Paraphyletic Taxon

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Includes some (but not all) of the descendants from a particular ancestor

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Analogous Traits

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Similar structures that evolved independently (convergent evolution)

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Convergent Evolution

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Distantly related species evolve similar features to serve the same function (E.g. bird and bat wings)

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Homologous Traits

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Shared traits that were inherited from a common ancestor

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Primitive traits

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Uninformative for sorting out relationships

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Derived traits

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Evolved in the lineage leading up to a clade and sets members of that clade apart from others

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Synapomorphy

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A derived trait shared among taxa

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Autapomorphy

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A derived trait unique to a single taxon

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Cladograms

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Arrange taxa by relatedness, not ancestry-descent

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Anagenetic Speciation

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Unbranching lineage of species through geological time

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Cladogenetic Speciation

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Branching of different species through geological time

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Molecular Clock

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A systematic accumulation of genetic change (E.g. mutations) that can be used to estimate the time of divergence between two taxa

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Sexual Dichromatism

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Sex differences in coloration

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Sexual Dimorphism

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Sex differences in body size or weaponry

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Biological Species Concept

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Reproductively isolated breeding populations

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Morphological Species Concept

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Phenotypically distinct evolutionary lineages

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Ecological Species Concept

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Populations occupying unique ecological niches

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Lineage splitting over time

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Ecological > Morphological > Biological

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Allopatric Speciation

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Speciation through geographic isolation

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Sympatric Speciation

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Speciation in the same geographic location

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