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Evolution

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Change in the gene pool of a population over time

  1. All living beings are from the same source
  2. Change over time
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What are the four mechanisms of Evolution? (4)

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  1. Natural Selection
  2. Mutation
  3. Genetic Drift
  4. Gene Flow
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What is Natural Selection and its result?

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The idea that the fittest survive and have more offspring.

Result: Adaptation
1. Increasingly well suited
2. Acts on existing heritable variation *

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What is Genetic Drift

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random loss of alleles

example: only breeding dominate, resulting in fixation

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Fixation

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Where one allele goes to 100%

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What are the two examples of the Genetic Drift?

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  1. Bottle Neck Effect
  2. Founder Effect
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What is the bottle neck effect

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When a disaster causes reduction of genes

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What is the founder effect

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When a sample of alleles moves to a different area to reproduce, excluding other alleles

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What population is Genetic Drift relevant to?

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Small populations

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What is fitness depended on? (2)

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  1. Survival
  2. Mate ability
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Stabilizing Selection

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Where the intermediate (mild form) of the trait is the fittest

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Disruptive Selection

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Where both* extremes of the trait is the fittest

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Directional selection?

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Where either* one of the extremes are the fittest

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What is Gene flow?

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where a movement of one gene to another population

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Allele Frequency?

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How common an allele is in a population

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How do you calculate the percentage of an allele?

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(Allele Frequency) = {(#of alleles)/(total number of copies of gene in population)}

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What is population genetics

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the study of allele frequencies in a population and how they change

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Gene Pool

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All copies of all genes in a population

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Microevolution

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small changes in a population, which is the smallest unit for evolution

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Macroevolution

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Large changes involving multiple populations

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What does the Hardy-Weinberg Equation used for?

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It is to make a general approximation of allele frequencies

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What does the Hardy-Weinberg Equation assume? (5)

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  1. No mutation
  2. Random mating
  3. No gene flow
  4. Large population
  5. No natural selection

i.e.
1. Stable allele frequency
2. No Evolution

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what is the Hardy-Weinberg Equation

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(p+q)^2

p+q = 1

P^2 = homo Dominant
2pq = hetero Dominant
q^2 = homo recessive

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What are the four
ways for the evidence of evolution?

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  1. Structural - Morphology
  2. Molecular - DNA
  3. Observation - fossils
  4. Biogeographical evidence
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Carbon 14
(neutron) + (Nitrogen Isotope) = (carbon 14) + (Hydrogen Isotope)
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Carbon 14 decay?
⁶C₁₄ → ₇N₁₄ + e⁻ + νe happens when you croak
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What does Carbon 14 do?
we can determine the age of fossils
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What are the three different categories of proof of evolution?
1. Structural 2. Molecular 3. Observations
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Embryology
a branch of biology dealing with embryos and their development
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Homologous features
similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor, but the features serve completely different functions, like an arm and a fin of a fish
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vestigial structures
a physical feature of an organism that has lost most or all of its original function through evolution - like our tail bone
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analogous features
similar traits in different species that have different anatomies but serve the same function
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convergent evolution
Where unrelated species develop similar traits due to the similar environments
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Biogeography
the study of how species and ecosystems are distributed across the Earth's surface and through time
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strata
The layer in the rocks where they find fossils
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Taxonomy
The science of classifying organisms
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biodiversity
variety on earth
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topology
the way in which constiuent traits are related or arranged
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Reproduction Isolation
Two species cannot mate due to obstacles
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What are the two types of reproductive isolation?
Pre-zygot Isolation Post-zygot Isolation
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Pre-Zygot Isolation components
1. Temporal/Habitat Isolation 2. Behavioral isolation 3. Mechanical isolation
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Post Zygot Isolation components
1. Zygote Mortality 2. Hybrid Mortality 3. Hybrid Sterility (kids can't have kids)
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Dispersal
the movement of organisms from one location to another, such as from their birthplace to a breeding site
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Species
Animals that can: 1. interbreed 2. Fertile offspring
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Hybrid
an organism that is the offspring of two different species or subspecies
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speciation
differences in a species that cause multiple species to be borne
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Allopatric Speciation
Speciation due to geographical distance
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Sympatric Speciation
Speciation in the same geographical area
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polyploidy
too many haploids in a plant, but it still works
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Asexual Reproduction
the production of zygotes due to same sexes reproducing
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Sexual Reproduction
the production of zygotes due to different sexes reproducing
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what does the Genetic Diversity look like in sexual and Asexual reproduction ?
Sexual - High Asexual - Low
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When was Earth born?
4.6byu
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when did life originate?
3.9-3.5 (byu)
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When was the first Fossil evidence found?
3.5 byu
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What are the four hypothesis for how life started?
1. Oparin-Halden Hypothesis 2. Metabolism First Hypothesis 3. RNA world 4. Space
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Primordial Soup
a solution rich in organic compounds in the primitive oceans of the earth, from which life is hypothesized to have originated
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How did monomers group into polymers in early earth?
There were neither enzymes or other catalysts, so it was made spontaneouesly
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What are RNA's capabilities?
It can 1. Store genetic information like DNA 2. Catalyze reactions like PROTEIN 3. Do its normal job - make proteins 4. Turns transcription on and off, controlling life
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Grabber RNA
In early earth, an RNA grabbed onto another RNA, building a more complex world
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ribosome
controls whether a mRNA turns into a protein
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SRP
sends proteins where they are needed while it is being formed, and at their destination is formed completely early version may have emerged helping to build a cytoskeleton of a cell
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Gene Manipulating RNA
Chops of unwanted parts of a mRNA and glues the rest back together, speeding up evolution
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Alternative Splicing
A re-mix of RNA to make more proteins, speeding up evolution
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What was the conclusion of the Miller-Urey Experiment
1. It attempted to make early earth simulations, but ended up being inaccurate 2. It produced Amino Acids
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Genetic Diversity
Variety of genes in a given species
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Species Diversity
Number of species in a given area
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Adaptative radiation
1. A single species moves to an island 2. They adapt to the island's niches
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artificial selection
where humans directly influence the genetic makeup
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when a species become extinct, the niche it occupied becomes ______________ to other species.
available
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Natural Selection acts on______, but evolution acts on ________________.
individuals populations
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common ancestor node
a node in a tree that is an ancestor of two or more other nodes
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out group
least related to other groups
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the more diversity, the _______________ ____________ of ___________.
higher chance of survival
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sexual selection
when certain traits are more attractive for mating ig...
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punctuated equilibrium
the idea that evolution (change) occurs in spurts instead of following the slow, but steady path
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gradualism
the theory that species change over time through small, incremental changes
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adaptive radiation
the rapid diversification of a single ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, each adapted to occupy a different ecological niche
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flora
study of the distribution of plants in the environment
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fauna
study of the distribution of animals in the environment
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cladogram vs. Phylogenetic tree
cladogram - shows time in evolution phylogenetic tree - does NOT show time in evolution
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clade
different groups in a phylogenetic tree
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nodes
common ancestors
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root
most common ancestor of ALL members
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What are three evidences of common ancestors of eukaryotes?
1. membrane bound organelles 2. linear chromosomes 3. introns
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adaptive radiation
the evolution of organisms into separate species that occupy different ecological niches
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Hybrid breakdown
when species can replicate and have fertile children, but the hybrid becomes more and more weak
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polyploidy
replication of MORE chromosomes, causing speciation (sympatric speciation)

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