unit test 2 (Ch.18-20) Flashcards
What are taxons?
A way to classify the diversity of organisms
What do taxons include?
kingdom-King
Phylum-Phillip
Class-Cried
Order-Out
Family-For
Genus-Good
Specis-Sex
How was it determined that the earth was a lot older than originally thought (Think James Hutton)?
erosion work over long periods of time in geology
What did Malthus identify?
That the human population could outgrow their supply of food
what was a consequence of Malthus’ claim?
population growth was slowed
what did Lamarck propose?
organisms could change over time based on 2 principles
what are the 2 principles that Lamarck proposed about the changing of organisms?
-Use and disuse
-Inheritance of acquired traits
What is an example of use and disuse of an organisms physical properties?
A giraffe’s neck could elongate if a food source was out of reach
How did Darwin come up with his claim that the earth is much older than we think?
-geologicl processes occur very slowly
What did Darwin say about populations and their food?
if populations grew faster than their food supply, this applied to animals as well. This could influence subsequent generations to be more suited to their environments.
What did the inheritance of traits from 1 generation to the next imply?
Organisms become better suited to their environments as the environments themselves change
Where did darwin find most of his evidence for adaptations, ‘inheritance characteristics that improve survival in an environment and increase reproductive success’?
Galapagos islands
What was the 2 main ideas of Darwin’s theory?
-Natural selection
Descent with modification
What are the pressures that Darwin considered on organisms in an environment ?
-resources are finite and limit population growth (next generation won’t thrive)
-Limited resources can lead to organisms to struggle to survive (Organisms will fight for their life)
-Characteristics of individuals in a population vary greatly (no one is exactly the same in characteristics)
-Not all individuals in a pop. will reproduce succesfully (organisms better suited to their environment –> leave behind better offspring more suited to their environment = Fitness)
what does fitness mean in evolution?
Reproductive success of an individual
Greater fitness means that the organism will leave…
More offspring tha individuals that display less fitness
Over generations, traits providing adavantages in a given environment will accumulate in a population. What is this called?
natural selection = survival of the fittest
What does it mean when the generations are slightly different that the genrations before that?
descent with modification
does evolution work on individuals?
No only on populations
does evolution act on traits that aren’t heritable?
No only heritable traits
what is an example of evidence for evolution?
Soapberry bugs feed on fruit with the help of beak length
-If beak length is variable and heritable, we might expect beak length to vary in 2 populations (1 in south Florida and 1 in central Florida) which they do!
what is homology?
describes a characteristic that is similar between organisms as a result of common ancestry
What causes the characteristics of organisms to be no longer identical?
adaptive radiation
what is adaptive radiation?
where organisms evolve and adapt to new environments, causing modifications to original characteristics.
what is an example of adaptive radiation?
human, cats, whales and bats all display similar bones in their limbs; humerus, ulna, radius, carpals, metacarpals..
what is an example of homologous structures?
embyos of varius animal species;
embryos of fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals display **similar structures early in development **which develop into homologous structures in adulthood
what are analogous structures?
characteristics that are similar between unrelated organisms
do analogous structures evolve from common ancestry?
no, they eveolve from similar selective **pressures **from their environment
What is an example of analogous structures?
the wings of bats, birds, and insects:
common ancestors of these organisms did not have wings but* selective pressures* in the environment caused them to evolve wings
What was Pangaea?
Supercontinent, all continents put together
what supports the theory of Pangaea?
Fossil record and carbon dating these fossil
what is a population?
all individuals of the same species that live in a particular place at the same time
do individuals in a population vary in their traits?
yes
how does variation occur in a population?
selective pressures from the environment and** inheritance of genes**
how is evolutionary change inherited?
1 generation to the next
what do individuals of a population share? (think genetics)
same number of genes
since there is a lot of variation in populations and individuals in a population share the same number of genes, what is an important cause of the variation which is linked to their genes?
alleles
what is a gene pool?
all alleles for all genes present in a population
True or False? diploid organisms can have 3 alleles for each gene
no, it can only have up to 2 alleles
do the 2 alleles of diploid organisms represent all the possible alleles for a gene?
no, there are more possible alleles for that gene
what is microevolution?
Includes
-creation of new alleles from mutations
-the change in proportions of alleles in a population’s gene pool from 1 generation to the next
what is a basic (easy) defenition of microevolution?
if proportion of individuals of any genotype changes from 1 generation to the next
what is genotype frequency?
proportion of a specific genotype in population
Ex: there are 490 individuals with the genotype AA in a population of 1000 so the genotype frequency is 0.49
what is an allele frequency?
proportion of a specific allele in a population
Ex:
-490 AA
-420 Aa
so 490 x2 + 420=1400
total number of alleles in this population is 2000 (All A & a’s)
allele frequency = 1400/2000= 0.7
What does it mean if the allele frequency is changing over generations?
evolution is occuring
how do allele frequencies change?
influence of outside factors
what does Hardy-Weinberg Principle explain?
if allele & genotype frequencies do NOT change over time, population is NOT evolving
what do we say if there is no change in allele or genotype frequency?
populaion is at equilibrium and NOT evolving
Is it rare for a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
Yes, because microevolution includes ANY force or pressure that could CHANGE proportion of alleles or genotypes in 1 generation to the next
what could prevent a population from evolving? (5)
-no mutations
-Random mating
-No natural selection
-having an extremely large population size
-no migration (transfer of alleles from another population)