Exam 1 PDF - Biology Past Paper
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This document covers key concepts of biology, focusing on evolution, genetics, speciation, and phylogeny. The document explores topics such as adaptations, natural selection, and types of selection, as well as different isolation mechanisms.
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· Adaptations heritable traits - that help individuals survive/reproduce in their current environment · Natural Selection - increases...
· Adaptations heritable traits - that help individuals survive/reproduce in their current environment · Natural Selection - increases the frequency of advantageous traits in the population over time · Biological Fitness - individuals who are best adapted to their environment Natural Selection 1 Stabilizing selection directional um selection disruptive selection · favors intermediate · favors one extreme · the two extremes phenotypes are favored Genetic Drift-random change in sele frequency Gene Flow-movement of alleles between populations Mutation-creation of new alleles Speciation · the formation of two species from an ancestral species · concept criteria advantages disadvantages I I I I reproductive isolation evolutionary independence N/A to a sexual biological species/fossil species morphological distinction widely applicable subjective morphological - differences physically (may misclassify) species on the smallest widely applicable lack of good tree Phylogenetic da+a tip on the tree Reproductive Isolation once species become isolated they longer exchange - can no genes. - the separation becomes more distinct and new mutations Soon create a new species Prezygotic and Postzygotic · prezygotic prevents the - formation of a zygote Temporal Isolation · species breed at different times - - Habitat Isolation different habitats - - Behavioral Isolation - different courtship rituals - MechanicalIsolation reproductive organs are incompatible - - Gametic Isolation gametes incompatible - are postzygotic isolation is produced but fails to develop · a zygote - or is sterile Hybrid Inviability - embryos do not survive - - Hybrid Sterility offspring are - not fertile Allopatrio/Sympatric Speciation · Allopatric populations are separated from each = other(geographic) dispersal : individuals disperse and colonize a habitat - new - vicariance : physical barrier forms/separates a species populations may diverge and be longer to interbreed - no Sympatric reproductively isolated who physical barrier · : eX thin and thick-lipped cichlids -. - polyploidy ; having more than I sets of chromosomes - autopolyploidy : a diploid plant produces diploid gametes instead of haploid ones ; after fertilization that diploid can produce tetraploid offspring Phylogeny - the evolutionary history + relationships of an organism of or group organism tips A B C D 7 7 M branch [ -represents nodes - speciation lineage events root-common ancestor Monophyletic Clade - a common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor nested within another (smaller clades in large one · one a Paraphyletic Group - includes a common ancestor and some but not all , descendants Synapomorphies - shared derived characters of monophyletic group Homologous traits - traits that similar due to common ancestry · due to synapomorphies AnalogousTraits - traits that are similar but were not inherited from a common ancestor · they involved independently via convergent evolution Sister Groups - descendants that split from the same node · closest relatives Outgroup-taxon that is outside the groups of interest Taxonomy - the science of classifying organisms Domain gametes gametes IN - meiosis fertilization 2N zygate diploid S adult Alternation of Generations - "SPORIC MELOSIS" - meiosis = haploid spores gametophyte mitosis mitosis gametes - = spores red ex. algae 7 - N kelp gametes meiosis( haploid > - V 2 > fertilization diploid ↳ contains zygote sporangia Sporophyte S Ecological/Economical Importance of Protists · Positive Impacts photosynthesis (primary producers) - - Phytoplankton (food chain) - nutrition · Impact on human health/welfare can cause human disease and crop disease - eX. Irish potato famine · Apicomplexans photosynthetic plastid - non parasitic - - forms infections spores Trypanosoma · - causes sleeping sickness in humans - affects nervous system Ecological Impacts · - red tides · caused by blooms of dinoflagellates · fish kills · human headaches Shellfish poisoning ~