chapter twenty-five Flashcards

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what types of changes does the fossil record show?

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macroevolutionary changes
1. emergence of terrestrial vertebrates
2. impact of mass extinctions
3. origin of flight of birds

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what did earth’s early atmosphere likely contain?

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water vapor and chemicals released by volcanic eruoptions

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what did chemical/physical processes on earth potentially produce?

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simple cells

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how were simple cells maybe produced?

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  1. abiotic synthesis off small organic molecules
  2. joining of these small molecules into macromolecules
  3. packaging of molecules into protocols
  4. origin of self-replicating molecules
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what did Oparin and Haldane hypothesize in the 1920s?

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that the early atmosphere was a reducing environment

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Miller and Urey 1953

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  • conducted lab experiments that showed the abiotic synthesis of organic molecules in a reducing environment (with pond and clay) is possible
  • evidence not yet convincing there was reducing atmosphere
  • organic molecules could have been formed with various possible atmospheres
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where might the first organic compounds have been synthesized?

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near volcanoes and deep sea vents

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what have been found in meteorites?

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amino acids

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what were produced spontaneously from simple molecules

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RNA monomers

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when do small organic molecules polymerize

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when concentrated on hot sand, clay, or rock

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protocells - simple cells

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fluid-filled vesicles with membrane-like strcuture

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what are key properties of life that may have appeared together?

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replication and metabolism

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how are vesicles formed?

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in water, lipids and other organic molecules can spontaneously form vesicles with a lipid bilayer
- adding clay can increase rate of vesicle formation

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first genetic material

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most likely RNA

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ribozymes

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RNA molecules that have been found to catalyze many different reactions
- can make complementary copies of short pieces of RNA

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what has natural selection produced?

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self-replicating RNA molecules

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what types of RNA would have left the most descendent RNA molecules

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RNA molecules that were more stable or replicated more quickly

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RNA world

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small RNA molecules able to replicate and store genetic info about vesicles that carried them

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vesicles with RNA capable of replication would have been _____________

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protocells

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RNA could have provided the template for what?

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DNA - more stable genetic material

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richest source of fossils

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sedimentary rock, deposited into layers called strata

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fossil record is biased in favor of species that:

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  1. existed for long time
  2. were abundant and widespread
  3. had hard parts
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relative age of fossils

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revealed by strata

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absolute age of fossils

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determined by radiometric dating
- parent isotope decays to daughter isotope at constant rate
- can be used for fossils up to 75,000 years old

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half-life
time required for half of parent isotope to decay
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if fossils are older than 75,000, how can they be dated?
isotopes can date the sedimentary rock layers above and below the fossil
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what group to mammals belong to?
tetrapods
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what is the geologic record divided into?
Hadean, Archaean, Proterozoic, Phanerozoic
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which eon encompasses most multicellular eukaryotic life?
Phanerozoic
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3 eras of phanerozoic
Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
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what do major boundaries between geological divisions represent?
extinction events
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stromatolites
oldest known fossils - rocks formed by the accumulation of sedimentary layers on bacterial mats
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when were stromatolites dated back to?
Archaean eon
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when were prokaryotes earth's sole inhabitants?
2.1-3.5 billion years ago
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most atmospheric oxygen is of what?
biological origin
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O2 was produced by what?
oxygenic photosynthesis, which reacted with dissolved iron and precipitated out to form banded iron formations
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oxygen revolution
- caused extinction of many prokaryotic groups - some groups survived/adapted using cellular respiration
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what was the early rise in O2 likely caused by?
ancient cyanobacteria
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what was the later increase of O2 maybe caused by?
evolution of eukaryotic cells containing chloroplasts
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when were the oldest fossils of eukaryotic cells dated back to?
Proterozoic eon
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what do eukaryotic cells have
nuclear envelope, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, cytoskeleton
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endosymbiont theory
mitochondrion and plastids (chloroplasts and related organelles) were formerly small prokaryotes living within larger host cells
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endosymbiont definition
cell that lives within a host cell
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key evidence for endosymbiont theory:
- inner membranes similar to plasma membranes of prokaryotes - division similar to prokaryotes - transcribe and translate their own DNA - ribosomes more similar to prokaryotic ribosomes
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oldest known fossils of multicellular eukaryotes
small algae
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snowball earth hypothesis
periods of extreme glaciation confined life to equatorial region or deep sea vents
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Cambrian explosion
sudden appearance of fossils resembling modern animal phyla in Cambrian period
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what phyla appeared before the Cambrian explosion?
sponges, cnidarians, molluscs
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what does the Cambrian explosion provide the first evidence of?
predator/prey interactions
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vascular tissues in plants
transport material internally
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what did plant and fungi form?
mutuals beneficial associations - likely colonized together
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most widespread and diverse animals
anthropoids and tetrapods
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what did tetrapods evolve from?
lobe-finned fish
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supercontinent
Pangea - could have been formed in 3 points in time
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plate tectonics
earth's crust is composed of plates floating on earth's mantle
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continental drift
tectonic plates moving slowly
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what do interactions between plates cause?
formation of mountains, islands, and earthquakes
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possible effects of Pangea
- deepening ocean basins - reduction in shallow-water habitat - colder/drier climate inland
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what did the separation of land masses lead to?
speciation
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mass extinction
where global environmental changes lead to increased rate of extinction
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how many mass extinctions have there been
5 - in each one, more than 50% of species became extinct
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Permian mass extinction
- boundary between Paleozoic and Mesozoic - 96% of marine animal species
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factors contributing to Permian extinctions
1. intense volcanism in now Siberia 2. global warming resulting from emission of large amounts of CO2 from volcanoes 3. reduced temperature gradient from equator to poles 4. oceanic anoxia from reduced mixing of ocean waters
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Cretaceous mass extinction
- separates Mesozoic/Cenozoic - half of marine species, plants/animals, dinosaurs
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what evidence suggests a meteorite impact?
presence of iridium in sedimentary rocks
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what can mass extinctions alter?
- ecological communities/niches - percent of marine predators increased
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adaptive radiation
evolution of diversely adapted species from common ancestor - can occur when organisms colonize new environments with little competition
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what might adaptive radiations follow?
1. mass extinctions 2. evolution of novel characteristics 3. colonization of new regions
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what did the disappearance in dinosaurs lead to?
expansion of mammals in diversity and size
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development genes
control rate, timing, and spatial pattern of changes in an organism's form as it develops into an adult
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heterochrony
evolutionary change in rate/timing of developmental events - can have impact on body shape
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paedomorphosis
rate of reproductive development accelerates compared with somatic development - sexually mature species may retain body features that were juvenile structures in ancestral species
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homeotic genes
determine basic features - where wings/legs develop on bird, or how flower's parts are arranged
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Hox genes
class of homeotic genes that provide positional info during development - if expressed in wrong location, body parts can be produced in wrong location or alter timing
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what do new morphological forms likely come from?
gene duplication events that produce new developmental genes
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what do changes in morphological forms likely come from?
changes in REGULATION of developmental genes rather than changes in sequence of developmental genes
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evolution is like what?
tinkering
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how have complex eyes evolved?
from simple photosensitive cells independently many times
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exaptations
structures that evolve in one context but become co-opted for a different function