UNE Final Exam Study Guide PDF

STUDY GUIDE for Exam during Finals Week Check UNE final exam schedule for room & time: https://www.une.edu/registrar/calendars/schedules Format Part I, Biodiversity Applications – 5 multiple choice questions related to Biodiversity Applications synthesis activities Part II, Final...

STUDY GUIDE for Exam during Finals Week Check UNE final exam schedule for room & time: https://www.une.edu/registrar/calendars/schedules Format Part I, Biodiversity Applications – 5 multiple choice questions related to Biodiversity Applications synthesis activities Part II, Final exam - 20 multiple choice questions related to Applications activities AND Thought Questions from all three units of the course What to know… From lecture and the textbook Concepts that inform your understanding of the Thought Questions and the Applications synthesis activities from all three units of the course From other class activities Thought Questions (these are available in Brightspace within each separate unit of the course – Ecology, Evolution, Biodiversity) Applications (overviews of each of these assignments are available in Brightspace within each separate unit of the course) o Ecology: Relationships in a Temperate Forest Ecosystem Be familiar with how food webs are structured and the terminology used to describe the trophic level at which a given species is found within a web (primary producer, primary consumer, etc.) If you were provided with a picture of a food web (like in Figure 45.18 from the textbook), be able to predict how changes in the population size of one species would effect another one in the web To aid your review, copies of the food webs you created are available within Brightspace in “Ecology APPLICATIONS synthesis & review for EXAM” o Evolution: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Health Know the evolutionary-based explanations for why natural selection has not eliminated the 3 topics that were discussed during the synthesis activity, available within Brightspace in “Evolution APPLICATIONS synthesis & review for EXAM” If you were given the symptoms of a medical condition that we did NOT cover in the synthesis activity, be able to identify which of the following this condition is most like, from the standpoint of an evolutionary-based explanation for why it has not been eliminated by natural selection: o most similar to Sickle cell anemia - survival benefits outweigh reproductive costs o most similar to Aging – reproductive benefits outweigh survival costs  o most similar to Obesity – condition was beneficial or not a problem throughout most of human evolutionary history, but is an issue now in the novel environment in which we live o Biodiversity: Threatened and Endangered Species in Maine Know the details about the 4 species covered in the Biodiversity Applications synthesis activity, paying particular attention to the traits and characteristics of each species that influence its risk of extinction according to the criteria we discuss on the final Conservation Biology synthesis day o The 2nd page of the species reports will be available in Brightspace in “Conservation Biology 1st round & review for EXAM during finals week” o The list of the 4 species you will be responsible for AND the evaluative criteria adapted from the Gulf of Maine report on Species at Risk will be available in Brightspace in “Conservation Biology 2nd round & review for EXAM during finals week”