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How did earth gain its atmosphere?

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From outgassing ( when the earth was cooling down from collision and volcanoes released gas.

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Formation of building blocks

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Addition of energy to the reducing atmosphere allows prebiotic molecules to be formed.

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Self splicing introns

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Acting as a ribozyme to splice itself out and make mature RNA transcript.

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Stromatolites

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community of bacteria lives on the surface and creates layers of calcium carbonate where cells can sometimes be trapped and found.

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Subduction

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when a marine plate pushes against a continental plate and creates a subduction zone.

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Nested sets

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organisms that fall into hierarchical categories

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Classification criteria

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  1. Objectivity criterion: use characteristics that come from the organisms themselves.
  2. Naturalness: the way we grouped them together would be considered natural if whatever subset of characters we use to put things into groups, we would find the same group if we picked another subset of characteristics.
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Character conflict

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different sets of characters indicate different groups

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Value of objective and natural classification

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will allow rational persons to independently discover the same classification scheme

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Sister species

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species derived from the same most recent common ancestor (MRCA)

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homology

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Character shared between species because of common descent.

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Analogy (homoplasy)

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Characters shared due to convergence (does not help us figure out relationships)

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Similarity

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two characters appear like each other without making any claim about common descent or convergence

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Plesiomorphy (Ancestral homology)

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evolve before some change in that homology

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Symplesiomorphy (shared ancestral homology)

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Inherited from a most recent common ancestor of a group but not all the descendants from the common ancestor of the group have the character (will give us a natural classification scheme) -> cannot bc they dont include all members of the clade defined by the first common ancestor with the trait.

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Apomorphy (derived homology )

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thing that comes after the new version of the trait

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Autapomorphy

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derived in a single lineage

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Synapomorphy (shared derived homologies)

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Can be used to determine ALL the members of a clade without ambiguity

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Monophyletic group

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ALL the descendants from a single common ancestor (created using synapomorphies)

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Paraphyletic group

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SOME but not all the descendants of a most recent common ancestor (created using symplesiomorphies)

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Polyphylectic group

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species not grouped due to the same common ancestor (produced using analogies)

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Analogies

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can NEVER be used to make inferences about relationships

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Cladistic

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groups are related to one another by their most recent common ancestor

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Star tree

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when you dont know the relationships of the species (all lines coming from the same root)

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Partially resolved
Shows more than two branches on the tree
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Order of the tips on the tree
The order at the tips of the tree do not mean anything in how closely related the species are
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Parsimony
tree that has the least number of changes (steps) for characters
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Parsimony Justification
If particular characters dont change too often on a tree then you can use parsimony to make good inferences on what really happened (fast rate of speciation will not be good with parsimony)
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Two steps to producing a tree
1. Find the shortest possible unrooted tree, that is, the one requiring the fewest evolutionary changes (unroot the tree) 2. Root the tree (after finding the best unrooted tree)
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Morphological characters
Observed character states -> find true homologies -> figure out character polarities (determining synapomorphies) -> parsimony for ambiguities -> root tree
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Molecular characters
Observed character state -> parsimony -> unrooted tree -> determine character polarities -> root tree
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3 principals to determine homologies
1. Homologous characters show the same fundamental structure 2. Homologies have the same fundamental relationships to surrounding characters 3. Same embryonic development in different groups cant use these methods to distinguish homologies and analogies in DNA sequence
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Pitfalls in determining homologies
-Mistakenly classify analogies as homologies -Mistakenly classify homologies as analogies
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Character polarity
trying to figure out which wat a character formed ex: A -> A' or A <- A'
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Determine ancestral and derived states
1. Outgroup comparison: Use a close relative of species being studied to determine the ancestral character state (can use sister species group) 2. The embryological criterion: evolutionary sequence gets more and more specific as these new developmental features get added toward the end of a sequence. (evolutionary history of the trait) 3. Paleontological criterion (fossil record): any characters recorded in the fossil record (mostly of hard parts)
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Characters for molecular method
Nucleotides and amino acids
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Positional homology
When you align sequences, you're tracing the history of that position in the sequence
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Issues with phylogenetic inference
1. the number of combinations is enormous even with a relatively small number of taxa 2. minimally need almost as many synapomorphies as taxa to be resolved, preferably more 3. need to pick a molecule that evolves at an appropriate rate
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Coevolution
When two or more species act as reciprocal selective agents/forces on one another
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Feedback in the system for coevolution
Their selection for each other can change the way they select traits in the future
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Coevolution species interactions
Consumer-resource: predation, herbivory, parasitism Mutualism
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Coadaptation
mutual adaptation of two species to one another Positive (mutualism): a relationship where two or more species experience increased fitness from mutual adaptations Negative (antagonistic or arms race): a relationship where one species experiences increased fitness, but the other experiences decreased fitness
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Cospeciation
when a pair of species that are associated with one another speciate in parallel
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Fahrenholz's rule
coevolving parasites and hosts should speciate approximately simultaneously (not only topologies are the same but so is the timing)
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Negative coevolution (the nature of the cycle)
1. Feeding of insects on plants exerts a selective pressure on the plants for antiherbivore defenses (to reduce consumption) 2. Defense creates selective pressure on the insects for resistance (resistance to the plant's defense) 3. Next round of evolution: plants evolve a modified or new set of chemicals continuous cycle
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Virulence
the degree to which a parasite/disease reduces the host's fitness
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group selection
long term benefit of the group as a whole is favored over what an individual does
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Virulence mode of transmission
vertical transmission: from parent to offspring (promotes lower virulence) horizontal transmission: movement from one host to another without respect to the genetic relationship of the hosts
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Rate of infection
How often does an individual get infected - if something is getting infected a lot it'll probably have multiple genotypes inside of its body at any one time
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High rate of infection
Rate of infection is so high individuals are getting infected with both genotypes -virulent type will dominate over avirulent
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Low rate of infection
Individuals only get infected once
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Hominins
all the different fossil lineages that are part of that overall human lineage

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