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what does natural selection need to succeed?

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heritable variation
excess production
differential success

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what did Linnaeus do?

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“father of taxonomy” proposed nested classification of genus, genus, family, order, etc

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what did Lamarack do?

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observed progression of species in fossils (suggested modification)
said that the world has separate lineages that strive for perfection/complexity by using the use and disuse of parts and inheritance of acquired characteristics (this is not well supported)

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examples of natural selection?

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  • warfarin use (stops blood clotting) increases gene mutation that causes warfarin resistance in rats, even though the mutation is harmful (shows editing rather than creative mechanism and time/place contingency)
  • soapberry bugs feed on juice inside fruit, they developed shorter beaks when flatter fruit became more common
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evidence of a tree of life?

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vestibular structures
molecular homologies (similarity from a common ancestor)
biogeography
the fossil record

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what are vestibular structures?

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structures that have little to no function are are derived from a more complex structure (hind-limb bones in whales)

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what is an example of a molecular homology?

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the universal genetic code

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what is biography in evolution?

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some taxa are restricted to one location (endemic because of a common ancesto

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what is a population?

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an interbreeding and interacting group of a species

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what are the two types of gene pools?

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polymorphic loci (two plus alleles at differing frequencies)
fixed alleles (home population is homozygous at locus)

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what is the Hardy-Weinburg principle?

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p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1
(if this works the population is at Hardy-Weingburg equilibrium)

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what are the assumptions for the Hardy-Weingburg principle to work?

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new generation’s alleles are the same as the parent generation’s
no mutations
no natural selection
no migration
very large (infinite) population size
random mating

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how does genetic variation happen?

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mutation
gene flow (other populations)
microevolution

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what are the types of mutation in evolution and how common are they?

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neutral - most
deleterious - some
beneficial - very few

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what is microevolution?

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change (fixation or loss) in allele frequencies over generations

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what are the causes of microevolution?

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natural selection
gene flow
genetic drift
genetic bottlenecking

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what is genetic drift?

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random changes in frequency that can lead to fixation or extinction
(more common in smaller populations, chance of fixation = frequency (theoretically))

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what is genetic bottlenecking?

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when the population gets very small which causes low genetic diversity

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what is the founder effect?

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after genetic bottlenecking rare alleles become much more common

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what is selection pressure?

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what is placed on the “bad” genes

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what is relative fitness?

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what the “good” genes have

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what is polygenic inheritance?

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when one phenotype is influenced by multiple genes

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what is quantitative character?

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a smooth range of phenotypes

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what is directional selection?

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when one end is selected against (often caused by environment changes)

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what is stabilizing selection?
when the extremes are selected against (often caused by opposing selective forces)
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what is disruptive selection?
intermediates are selected against (role in some speciation events)
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what is sexual selection?
when organisms compete for mating abilities
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what is intrasexual selection?
competition with one sex (men) for mating abilities
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what is intersexual selection?
one sex (women) choose mate from competitors
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what is sexual dimorphism?
an adaptation that benefits one sex but both would suffer potential survival costs
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what is speciation?
when populations of one species evolve separately to become separate species
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what is allopathic speciation?
geographic barrier blocks gene flow, new habitat with different natural selections
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what happens when species with partial reproductive barriers established create hybrids?
fusion reinforcement long lasting hybrid zone
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what is fusion in speciation?
two species produce high fitness hybrids and merge into one species
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what is reinforcement in speciation?
two species create low fitness hybrids and natural selection ends hybridization and species stay separate
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what is the long-lasting hybrid zone?
hybrids of the two species are uncommon or have variable fitness
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what is sympatric speciation?
new species evolving within one geographic location, like parasites host switching or disruptive selection that favours reproductive barriers
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what is polyploid speciation?
when two species have usually sterile/unviable hybrids but have a mitotic error that makes the hybrids viable/fertile and the form new species
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what is one exception to the tree of life?
polyploid speciation
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what are reproductive barriers?
inhibit gene flow, may arise accidentally or evolve through natural selection
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what are the two types of reproductive barrier?
prezyogtic (before fertilization) and postzygotic (after fertilization)
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what are the types of prezyogtic barriers?
habitat isolation temporal isolation (mate at different times) behavioural isolation mechanical isolation (no fertilization occurs) gamete isolation (no zygote produced)
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what are the types of postzygotic barriers?
hybrid inviability hybrid infertility hybrid breakdown (second generation of hybrids are inviable/infertile)
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what are systematics?
study of the diversity of life
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what is taxonomy?
the study of classification
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what are the two types of phylogenetic tree?
cladogram - branch lengths don’t matter phylogram - branch lengths represent inferred amount of evolutionary change
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what is a monophyletic group?
an ancestor and ALL descendents
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what is a paraphyletic group?
an ancestor and SOME descendants
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what is a polyphyletic group?
two or more groups artificially grouped together without common ancestors
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what is cluadistic reasoning?
examine different characteristics and make character matrix or table to see shared derived states (imply relationships)
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what is convergent evolution?
two similar species developing separately with no common ancestors
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what is parsimony?
the theory that the most correct phylogenetic tree has the fewest evolutionary changes
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what is the fossil record?
provides info on past ecosystems and is found in sedentary rock index fossils = useful for dating
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what are the eras in the phanerozoic eon?
paleozoic mesozoic cenzoic
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what is the geological record?
the earth is 4.6 b years old, microbial life arose 3.5 b years ago, animals and plants developed 550 m years ago
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what is the end-permean mass extinction?
about 250 million years ago 90% species extinct 50% families extinct
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what is the end-cretaceous mass extinction?
about 65 million years ago 50% species extinct dinosaurs
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what are adaptive radiations?
rapid speciation events in underexploited habitats, can be regional (50+ plant species from 1 ancestor in Hawaii) or worldwide (after mass extinctions)
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what are complex adaptations?
functioning intermediates modification of existing structures larger (than darwinian) steps like gene duplication
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what is an example of developmental regualtion?
mutations in developmental genes example: homeotic genes (homeotic fruit flies have two torsos) genes can duplicate in chromosomes and have independent evolutionary change (paralogs)
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what is the three domain scheme?
bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes (most all microbial, fist two are prokaryotic)
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what are prokaryotes?
3.5 b years old, are most of the biological activity in many ecosystems bacteria and archaea
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what are some types of bacteria?
spirochetes gram-positive bacteria (no outer membrane) cyanobacteria (photoautotrophs) proteobacteria
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what are bacteria’s cell envelople
and outer membrane, plasma membrane, and a peptidoglycan wall in between
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what are archaea?
most are extremolphiles or methagens have no outer membrane or peptidoglycan wall
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how did eukaryotic cells evolve from prokaryotic cells?
endomembrane system evolved conventionally endocybiotic alphasproteobacterium becomes the mitochondrion endosymbiosis cyanobacterium becomes the plastid
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what are protists?
they are prokaryotic cell’s main predictor, they causes disease, and can photosynthesize
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what was the most recent era?
cretaceous era
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what is a shared trait between archaea and eukaryotes?
organelles of endosymbiotic origin
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what did the genome of a plastid evolve from?
the genome of a cyanobacteria

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