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how do some fossils form?

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form as sand, rock, silt us weathered and eroded from the land and carried by rivers to seas and swamps where the particles settle to the bottom
deposits pile up and compress the older sediments below into the rock - imprint fossil

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what part of the organism gets preserved as a fossil?

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the hard parts as the soft tissue decays

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what sometimes happens with the tissue in fossils?

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sometimes minerals seep into the tissues and replace its organic material as is done with petrified wood

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what is another way fossils form besides imprinting?

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by leaving an empty mold that becomes filled with mineral (other half=cast)

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what do trace fossils leave behind?

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trace fossils lie coprolites (fossilized dung) footprints or burrows that show the animal’s behavior

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where can entire preserved organisms be found?

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in amber - fossilized tree sap
frozen in ice
in acid bog where decomposition is slowed down

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2 methods to date fossils

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relative dating
absolute dating

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what is relative dating?

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dating relies on the position of fossils in strata
the deeper it is, the older

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what does relative dating tell us?

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the order in which groups of species existed but not the age of the fossil

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what does absolute dating tell us?

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does not tell us the absolute/errorless age but a close number

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what is used for absolute dating?

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aid of radiometric dating that relies on the fact that all fossils contained isotopes when they were alive and those isotopes decay at a fixed rate

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half life of C 14? what does this mean?

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5600 years
takes that long for 50% of the original sample to decay since isotopes are radioactive

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what is C-14 used to date?

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relatively young fossils

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what isotope is used to date older rocks?

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U-238

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what can the geological time scale be divided into?

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4 eras
many periods
many epoches

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4 eras oldest to youngest

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precambrian
paleozoic
mesozoic
cenozoic

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what does the geological time scale correspond to?

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is not divided arbitrarily, but corresponds to times of great change

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are continents fixed in place?

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no, they are drifting on plates above a hot mantle

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what does the movement of plates lead to?

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mountain buildings, volcanoes, and earthquakes

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when was Pangea formed?

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about 250 mya when plate movements brought the land masses on earth together into the supercontinent Pangea

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what happened to the species on land when Pangea formed?

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species that had evolved in solation were now together
shorelines reduced, causing a dry continental interior
mass extinction

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when did the 6th mass extinction happen ? why?

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today as a result of anthropogenic activities

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what does the fossil record reveal?

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an episodic history with long periods punctuated by a turnover in species composition

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what does the episodes in fossil records include?

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mass extinctions and adaptive/explosive reaction

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what was an impressive adaptive radiatino?
Cambrian explosion between the Precambrian and Paleozoic eras
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what did the cambrian explosion create a drastic change in?
change in sea life
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the cambrian animals were the first to?
have hard body parts like shells, skeletons and claws
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what did the hard bodies allow for?
for many new complex body designs and altered many predator-prey relationships
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what do many believe emerged from the Cambrian explosion?
all animal phyla that exist today evolved during this time
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what did the organism Pikaia first show signs of?
first signs of a notochord and may be the ancestor of all vertebrates
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what most often follows mass extinctions?
adaptive radiation
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what are the 2 most notable mass extinctions?
the Permian extinction and another that happened in the cretaceous period
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what happened in the permian extinction?
250 mya when pangea came together 90% of life was destroyed allowing for mammals and dinosaurs to flourish
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what happened in the extinction in the cretaceous period?
65 mya marked the end of the dinosaurs furthered the evolution of angiosperms
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why did the mass extinction happen in the cretaceous period?
volcanic eruptions in India blocking out the sun an asteroid colliding in the Yucatan Peninsula sending a great cloud of dust into the air and also blocking out the sun for possibly years and setting of a fire storm across NA continent killing most life there upon impact
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what did the species that managed to survive the mass extinction do?
adaptively radiated to fill the vacant zones caused by the extinction
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how do we know the asteroid struck the Gulf of Mexico?
1) crater 2) Ir= Iridium (more common in space)
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what is phylogeny?
evolutionary history of a species
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what is reconstructing phylogeny done with the aid of?
systemics - the study of biological diversity in an evolutionary context
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how do biologists represent the genealogies of organisms of organisms with?
phylogenetic trees - diagrams that trace evolutionary relationships as best that can be determined
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how to systematics arrange organisms? through what techniques?
taxonomy, the identification and classification of species, in their attempts to arrange organism in categories that reflect their evolutionary history/phylogeny
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what are hypothesis of past history on available data?
phylogenetic trees
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what are phylogenetic trees based upon?
fossil evidence, comparative anatomy, embryology, and comparing DNA and proteins
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comparing DNA and/or proteins is the most?
precise method in constructing evolutionary relationships if they are available
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how can DNA be analyzed by the use of?
gel electrophoresis or DNA sequence analysis - comparing the actual nucleotide sequences of DNA segments
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how do you measure the differences between two species when analyzing DNA?
identify nucleotides found in both species and determine if they have common ancestry
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what are cladograms?
type of phylogenetic tree
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what is homology?
likeness attributed to shared ancestry
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is all likeness inherited from a common ancestor?
no
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how may species from different evolutionary branches resemble on another?
if they have similar ecological roles "environmental pressure" and natural selection has shaped similar adaptations
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convergent evolution
different evolutionary branches but similar features based on analogous structures
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analogy
similarity due to convergence
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what similarities should we use to develop phylogenetic trees and classify organisms?
homologous similarities
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what happens to relatedness as the number of homologous part increase?
more related the two species are
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what happens to relatedness as the complex number of homologous part increase?
the higher the chance they evolved from one common ancestor
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divergent evolution
same ancestor and branched out based on homologous structures
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when a frozen or dried fossil is recovered, what is rare?
the fact that the DNA is intact
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what is fossil DNA contaminated with?
viruses or bacteria or has changed shape/broken down
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pieces of DNA mined from any fossil represent what?
only fractions of an organism's whole genome
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what are the 2 significant features of a phylogenetic tree?
1) the location of branch points along the tree symbolize the relative time of origin of diff organisms 2) the extent of divergence between branches represents how different 2 organisms have become since branching from a common ancestor
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with cladograms, how are actual organisms treated as?
terminal nodes
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what is the branching structure of cladograms determined by?
solely by shared derived characteristics - homologous structures that evolved in an ancestor that are common to all species on one branch of a fork in the tree, but not common on the other branches
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what is the main difference between phylogenetic trees and cladograms?
phylogenetic trees - length of branch is proportional to time/divergence from a branch point cladograms - the length of branches is not important and only order is significant

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