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BI-122: Foundations Of Organismal Biology > Exam 1 Study Guide > Flashcards

Exam 1 Study Guide Flashcards

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Gene:

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Section of DNA that codes for a protein that usually impacts the expression of a physical trait.

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Evolution:

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Change in the Frequency of an Allele from one generation to the next

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Locus:

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Locus: The Spot on a Chromosome where a particular gene is found
◦ Remember, there are many different genes on every individual chromosome

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Allele:

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Allele: Different form of a Gene. Think about X and x. They are two seperate alleles that could code for the same gene.

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Genotypes:

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Genotypes: Genetic Makeup of an Organism/Individual ….

  • Genome: (All of the Alleles that an organism has)
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Phenotype:

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Phenotype: Expressed “Physical” Traits of an Organism

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Genetic Variation:

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Genetic Variation: Organisms that have a variation in their genetic makeup or physical expression to a certain extent.

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Species:

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Species: Group of individuals that can exchange genetic material with one another.
◦ Each individual is a different combination of the alleles that are present in that population

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‣ Gene Pool:

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‣ Gene Pool: All of the alleles present in that species population
• The larger variation in genetic material, the bigger the possible ‘gene’ pool

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Population:

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Population: Group of organisms of the same species that live in a defined geographic area

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Population Genetics:

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Population Genetics: The Study of the Patterns of Genetic Variation
◦ Allows us to make inferences based on the patterns of genetic inheritance seen in a given population, determining which Characteristics/genes make an organisms fitness increase.

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Recombination:

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Recombination: Shuffles mutations to produce new sequences.
• Has to do with “Crossing-Over” in Miosis.

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Crossing-Over:

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Crossing-Over: Swapping little portions of the Chromosomes during Meiosis I, which gives us genetic Variation

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Germ-Line Mutations:

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Germ-Line Mutations: Mutation that occurs in the formation of a Gamete.
◦ Resulting mutation of a gamete results in an organism that has that mutation that can be passed to offspring

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Somatic Mutation:

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Somatic Mutation: Mutation that occurs in a non-reproductive cell. Which can’t be passed onto offspring.

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• Deleterious Variation:

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• Deleterious Variation: Harmful to the organism, makes it harder for it to survive and reproduce

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• Neutral Variation:

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• Neutral Variation: Little to no change to the “Fitness” of the organism

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• Advantageous Variation:

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• Advantageous Variation: Makes it easier for it to survive and reproduce (Increase in Fitness).
◦ Advantageous Variations will increase in subsequent generations, leading to an Adaptation over time.

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Adaptation:

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Adaptation: Genetic change that makes an individual more likely to survive and reproduce in it’s environment

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Fixed Allele:

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Fixed Allele: Either a Neutral or Advantageous variation that becomes more and more present in the population until 100% of the population has it. This means that the Allele rate in the Ratio is 100% For Example: If every single flower has PP and nothing else, we know that it is a fixed allele.

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Test Cross:

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Test Cross: Breeding an unknown genotype with a Homozygous Recessive will allow for us to determine the genotype of our unknown organism
◦ Usually includes a “Punnett square.”

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Fitness:

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Fitness: Measure of how well an Individual’s genotype is represented in the next generation
◦ Organisms that survive and reproduce will have a higher fitness than those that don’t.

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Complex Traits:

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Complex Traits: Continuous variation, not simply an either-or… Think of height: it isn’t just super tall or super short, there are all sorts of variations in the middle

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Artificial Selection:

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Artificial Selection: Breeders intentionally breed organisms with desirable traits with other animals in a controlled measure to hopefully create offspring with the desirable trait.

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Stabilizing Selection:

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Stabilizing Selection: Stabilizing selection selects against the extremes (both sides), pushing the curve into the middle

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Directional Selection:

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Directional Selection: Selects against one of the two extremes, pushing it in one particular direction
* Supports the average and one extreme, just not the other side

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Disruptive Selection:

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Disruptive Selection: Selects against the mean, pushing away from the middle and towards both extremes.

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Sexual Selection:

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Sexual Selection: Selection that promotes and individual’s access to mating.

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Adaptation:

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Adaptation: Genetic change that increases an organisms ability to survive and reproduce (Increases fitness).

  • Natural Selection is the ONLY force that leads to adaptation
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How does Migration/Immigration cause gene flow?

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• Migration/Immigration
◦ Causes Gene Flow: Movement of individuals/alleles from one population to another

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• Mutation:

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• Mutation: Change in Nucleotide Sequence/DNA that creates a new allele that codes for a Gene/trait.

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• Genetic Drift:

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• Genetic Drift: Random Change in Allele frequencies due to the effects of a small population size
◦ Doesn’t have to be purely beneficial. Genetic Drift can occur with Neutral traits that doesn’t increase or decrease fitness.

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‣ Fixed Allele/Fixation:

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‣ Fixed Allele/Fixation: 100% Frequency of any given allele amongst the entire population

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‣ Extinction:

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‣ Extinction: When an Allele reaches a frequency of 0% in the entire population

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Genetic Bottleneck:

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Genetic Bottleneck: Genetic Variation is decreased due to a population crash — leaving just a little bit of genetic variation into the current population.

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Founders Effect:

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Founders Effect: If you create a new population, the only genetic material in it will come from the founding group. Which means that the newly developed population will have a different Allele frequencies than the original population (That the “founders” left).

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Divergence:

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Divergence: Two groups that live separately from one another tend to have different genomes
◦ Molecular Evolution
‣ Different mutations accumulate separately in each population, but because the two populations are separate from one another — the mutations won’t be shared.
• So each population will slowly accumulate more and more mutations

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Molecular Clock:

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Molecular Clock: Using the amount of change in two populations to estimate how long they have been seperated for.
• The extent of Genetic Divergence is a function of time since isolation from one another
◦ This can be challenging, because some genes are better conserved than others.

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Biological Species Concept (BSC):

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Biological Species Concept (BSC): A group of inter-breeding populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups.
◦ Must Be able to create offspring that are fertile and capable of producing their own offspring

	‣ Mule (Horse and Donkey offspring) aren’t capable of reproducing, because they are sterile/infertile.. Which means that Horse and Donkeys are different Species. 

◦ Proposed by Ernst Mayer (1960s).  Fundamental Biological Unit.
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Ring Species:

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Ring Species: Two Populations that form a “ring” and at one place they are capable of inter-breeding, even though the densest parts of the population don’t interbreed.

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Ecological Species Concept:

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Ecological Species Concept:
• Competitive exclusion, which says that two species cannot fill the same Niche at the same time
‣ Proposed by “Gause”
◦ Niche: Role an organisms fills in it’s environment. How it interacts with the living and non-living components of his organism.

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Evolutionary Species Concept:

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Evolutionary Species Concept: All members of a species are descended from a common ancestor

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Allopatric Speciation:

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Allopatric Speciation: Diverging into two different species in different areas, without gene flow between the two

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• Vicariance:

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• Vicariance: Geographical barrier that seperates one starting population into two populations.
◦ Example: Snapping Shrimp

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• Simple Dispersal:

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• Simple Dispersal: Colonization of a distant area

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◦ Peripatric Speciation: (A type of Allopatric Speciation)

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◦ Peripatric Speciation: Dispersal to a nearby place. (Like an island)
• The main population seeds a small population in a new envrionment. This is essentially a “founders” effect. After establishing their new home, the new population doesn’t exchange genetic information with the original population. Instead, they begin to diverge from one another.

	‣ Think about birds that inhabit space in New Guinea.
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• Adaptive Radiation :

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• Adaptive Radiation : A group of organisms in an area where you can get a lot of selection, which allows for organisms to adapt to the environment… by either developing more extreme parts of the traits, or staying moderate due to competition.

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Co-Speciation:

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Co-Speciation: Two completely different species that evolve in the same way, at the same time, in response of one another.
• example: Lice adapting with Pocket Gophers, so that they can still survive the envrionments their hosts live in.

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Sympatric Speciation:

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Speciation with Gene flow between the diverging populations

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Polyploidy:

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More than two sets of genetic information (3n/4n, etc)
* Diploid would be 2n with 2 sets of genetic information

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Domain of Bacteria and Archea are composed of (Prokaryotes or Eukaryotes)?

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Answer: They are both composed of Prokaryotes

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Domain of Eukarya is composed of (Eukaryotes or Prokaryote’s)?

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Answer: Eukaryotes!

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Scientific Name: _____ + ______

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Genus + species

Dear King Philip Came Over From Great Spain

Domain, Kingdom, Philemon, Class, Order, Family, Genus + Species,

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EndoSymbiont Theory —> Lynn Margulis (1966).

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EndoSymbiont Theory —> Lynn Margulis (1966).

• Inside the cell, we have some sort of Symbiotic Relationship Occurring,

• Ancestral Prokaryote consumed an “Aerobic Heterotrophic Prokaryote” which became a Mitochondria, and Photosynthetic Prokaryotes which became Plastids/Chloroplasts.

Support for the EndoSymbiont Theory:
• Inner Membrane lipids of mitochondria and chloroplasts are similar to their prokaryotic counterparts.

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Symbiosis:

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Symbiosis: Two organisms living in close association with one another.

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• Mutualism Symbiosis:

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• Mutualism Symbiosis: Both Organisms benefit from this relationship
◦ Example: Clown Fish and a Sea Anemone

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• Parasitism Symbiosis:

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• Parasitism Symbiosis: One Organism is benefited from the relationship, but the other organism is harmed by it.

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• Commensalism Symbiosis:

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• Commensalism Symbiosis: One Organism benefits from the relationship, and the other organism isn’t really impacted by the relationship.

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Complex Multi-Cellular Organisms:

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Multi-Cellular Organisms:

• Form True Tissues:
◦ Tissues: A collection of cells that work together to perform a specific function
‣ Only Eukaryotes can form Tissues

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• What are the Characteristics of Simple-Multicellularity? (A grouping of Eukaryotic Cells, not a whole animal):

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• Simple-Multicellularity: Cells are hooking together, but they aren’t really working together in a coordinated manner.
◦ Poor Communication between one another, and they don’t share resources.
◦ In Contact with the Environment
◦ No Tissues.

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What are the components of Complex-Multicellularity? (Think of an actually Animal, like a Jaguar):

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Complex-Multicellularity:
Has True Tissues
◦ Complex Multicellularity has evolved at least 6 Separate Times.
• Most Plants and Animals

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Bulk Transport:

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Bulk Transport: Movement of Molecules through an Organism in an active circulation of fluids or Air.
• Moth Complex-Multicellular Organisms have to rely on a Bulk Transport system

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Adhesions: Cadherins and Integrins

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A. Cadherin: are transmembrane proteins that help hold cells together (especially in Epithelial tissues).
B. Integrin: Helps bind a cell to something else (other than a cell) —> using the Extracellular Matrix.
C. Pectin: is the matrix used in plants to glue plant cells together.

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Cellular Communication in Animal and Plant Cells:

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Cellular Communication in Animal and Plant Cells:

In animal cells, there are “Gap Junctions” which are these intercellular connections that are made up of a ring of proteins.
◦ Allow for more communication between Animal Cells

In Plant Cells, there are these holes called “Plasmodesmata” which are intercellular connections lined by extensions of the cell membrane.
◦ Allow for communication between Plant Cells

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Plant Growth & Development:

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Plant Growth & Development:

  • Cell Division (Mitosis)
    ◦ Totipotent Cells (Meristem’s —- Which are the “Stem” cells that are capable of specializing). are capable of going through Mitosis

• Cell Expansion (Elongation)
◦ Cell Takes on water, and fills the “Vacuole” with Water — which lets them expand.

• Cell Differentiation —> Signaling Molecules
◦ Will Tell the cell wha responsibilities it will be assigned; so those cells grow into their specialities

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What are the 3 Steps of Molecular Signaling? (Which are Usually Proteins that interact with a receptor).
◦ Evolved through Single-Celled Organisms

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Molecular Signaling: (Which are Usually Proteins that interact with a receptor).
◦ Evolved through Single-Celled Organisms

  1. Reception (Signal molecule actually receiving the signal)
  2. Transduction (Activation of the Relay Molecule — which tells the rest of the cell that a signal was recieved.
  3. Response: This Message Activates some sort of Cellular Response
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Animal Growth & Development:

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Animal Growth & Development:

• Zygote goes through mitosis and becomes a Blastula
◦ Blastula: Hollow Ball of Cells that are linked together.

Gastrulation: Folding inwards

Gastrula: Multi-Layered Developing Animal.
◦ Results in a tube, within a tube

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Evolution of Multi-Cellularity

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Evolution of Multi-Cellularity (In Order):

• 1). Adhesion

• 2). Complex Communication

• 3). Bulk-Transport

• 4). Coordinated Growth and Development

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Evolution of Multi-Cellularity by Year

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• 1st Complex Multi-Cellulars (575 Million Years Ago).

		• 1st Head + Tail (560 MYO).

		• 1st Muscles + Bulk Flow (555 MYO)

		• Complex Land Plants  (400 MYO).

		• Complex Fungi on Land 375 MYO).

BI-122: Foundations Of Organismal Biology (2 decks)

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