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Clinal Variation |
changes in phenotype as you move across an ecological gradient |
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Genetic Drift |
random changes in allele frequencies from one generation to the next due to sampling error and acts on small isolated population |
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Lost Allele |
lost from population |
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Fixed |
one lost, 2 present |
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Founder effect |
colonization event in which a subpopulation arrives to a new area but does not reflect genetic variation of source population due to sampling error |
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Bottleneck Effect |
a drastic reduction in population size due to natural disaster or disease epidemic and leads to reduced genetic variation |
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3 Major Types of Natural Selection |
Stabilizing, Directional, Disruptive |
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Stabilizing |
Mean/average phenotype is being selected for |
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Directional |
shift in average phenotype |
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Disruptive |
Mean/average phenotype is being selected against |
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Plasmodium falciparum |
organism responsible for causing malaria |
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Vector |
transmits disease from one organism to another |
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Sickle Cell anemia |
recessive |
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Only have malaria if |
homozygous recessive |
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If you are ___ for sickle cell anemia, you have more ___ to malaria |
heterozygous; resistance |
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Balancing Selection/Heterozygote Advantage |
selecting for the heterozygote state |
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Thalassemia |
if heterozygous, more resistant to malaria |
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G6PD Deficiency |
if heterozygous, more resistant to malaria |
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Geographic Isolation |
2 populations separated by geographical barrier |
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Reproductive Isolation |
populations come together and can't produce fertile offspring |
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Prezygotic Barriers |
occur before formation of zygote (prevent fertilization) |
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Temporal |
species reproduce at different times |
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Habitat |
Species reproduce in different habitats |
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Behavorial |
species have distinctive courtship behaviors |
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Mechanical |
special have structural differences in their reproductive organs |
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Gametic |
gametes of species are chemically incapable |
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Postzygotic barrier |
after formation of zygote, reduce viability of hybrid |
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hybrid inviability |
embryo never fully develops; spontaneous abortion |
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hybrid sterility |
hybrid survives but is unable to reproduce |
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2 types of speciation |
Allopatic and Simpatric |
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Allopatric |
main population experiences geographic barrier and interrupts gene flow and causes 2 different species to emerge |
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Simpatric |
species takes place in same area |
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3 ways simpatic speciation arrises |
resource allocation, sexual selection, polyploidy |
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polyploidy |
organism has more than 2 sets of chromosomes |
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unreduced gamete |
same number of chromosomes as you would have in the diploid state (n=46) occurs through malfunction in meiosis |
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macroevolution |
things that occur over millions of years |
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microevolution |
things that occur in short amount of time
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hybrid zone |
2 or more species overlap and produce fertile offspring |
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disjunct distribution |
range of species is operated by geographical gap |
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Larrea |
plant grown in deserts and is disjunct in distribution |
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Horizontal Gene Transfer |
transfer of gene foreman genome to another |
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Rubisco |
most abundant protein on planet, made up of 2 subunits |
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Amborella |
tropical vine that is ancestor to all flowering plants |
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Halobacterium |
archaea that can tolerate high salt concentration |
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Picrophillus |
archaea that can survive at ph's lower than .5 and temperatures of 60 degrees celsius |
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Deinococcus |
eubacteria that survives at radiation levels 3000x higher than normal |
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2 possible ways life occurred earth |
primordial soup or ET |
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Prokaryotic size |
0.5-5 |
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Eukaryotic size |
10-100 |
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Spherical cells |
cocci |
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rod shaped cells |
bacilli |
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staphylo |
cluster |
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strepto |
filaments of chains |
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spiral shaped cells contain ___ that cause lime disease |
spirochaetes |
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Eubacteria wall |
contain peptidoglycon |
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Archaea cell walls |
contain polysacharides and proteins |
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Ways cells stick to each other |
capsule and fimbraea |
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Capsul |
sticky outside that can be composed of polysaccharides and proteins |
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Gram positive cell wall |
simple cell wall with large amounts of peptidoglycan and have circular chromosomes |
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gram negative cell walls |
relatively complex cell walls with less peptidoglycan but also have other membranes composed of lipopolysaccharides which are toxic |
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Antibiotic more effective on ____ |
gram positive cell wall |
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Fimbriae |
little hairs that enable cells to stick to substrate |
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sex pilus |
tube that connects 2 cells and allows transfer of DNA |
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Vertical Gene Transfer |
passing genes from one generation to the next |
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3 way Cells move |
flagellum, cilia, taxis |
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Flagellum composed of |
motor hook and fillament
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taxis |
movement in response to environmental stimuli |
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Over ___% of prokaryotes code for genes |
90 |
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junk DNA |
doesn't code for genes |
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Binary Fission |
one cell divides into 2 by asexual reproduction |
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Prokaryotes have ___ rates of evolution because of ___generation times and ___ levels of genetic variation |
high; short; high |
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3 reasons prokaryotes have genetic variation |
short generation times, mutation, genetic recombination |
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mutation |
changes in DNA sequences
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Genetic Recombination |
exchange of genetic material |
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Endospore |
houses organelles and can survive harsh environments for hundreds of years |
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3 methods of genetic recombination |
transformation, transduction and conjugation |
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transformation |
uptake of DNA from surrounding environment |
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transduction |
virus transfers DNA from one genome to another |
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Conjugation |
transfer of DNA from one cell to another through a sex pilus and are unidirectiontal |
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Viruses are not alive because |
they don't replicate their own genetic material |
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4 ways viruses use DNA |
dsDNA, ssDNA, dsRNA, ssRNA |
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Theory that RNA switched to DNA because |
viruses instability of RNA |
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cyanobacteria |
conduct photosynthesis and release large amount of oxygen |
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folding of ___ structurally developed photosynthetic bacteria |
plasmalemma |
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Cynobacteria and Symbiosis |
lichens and water fern |
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heterocysts |
assist with nitrogen fixation |
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primary endosymbiosis |
eukaryotic ancestor took up prokaryotic cell and anaerobic bacteria became mitochondria and cyanobacteria became chloroplast |
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Secondary Endosymbiosis |
eukaryotic cell takes up another eukaryotic cell |
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Bacillariophyta - Diatoms |
unicellular 15,000 species 2 common morphologies frustule fossilize readily |
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2 common morphologies of diatoms |
Pennate (longitudinal)- fresh water centric (circular) - marine water |
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frustule |
hard cell wall that contains sillicates |
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Dinophyta - Dinoflagellates |
release toxic chemical and cause red tides symbiotic with choral: zooxanthellae cell walls made of cellulose fresh water and marine bioilluminescence |
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Dinoflagellate that is symbiotic with choral |
zooxanthellaea |
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bioluminescence |
certain chemicals give off light |
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Euglenophyta - Euglenoids |
no cell wall, have special membrane called pellicle made of proteins eye spot photosynthetic can uptake food from surrounding environment fresh water, brackish |
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Rhodophyta - Red Algae |
pigment phycoerythrin that reflects red light unicellular and multicellular tropical marine waters cell wall made of agar, cellulose and carrageenan |
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Chrysophyta - Golden Brown Algae |
cell walls of cellulose and sillicates |
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Xanthrophyta - Yellow Green Algae |
unknown cell wall fresh water |
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Cryptophyta - Crytomonads |
no cell walls marine and fresh water |
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Prymnesiophyta - Haptophytes |
tropical marine water |
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Phaeophyta - Brown Algae |
all multicellular kelp forests cell walls of cellulose cool,marine waters |
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Chlorophyta 3 Major Clades |
Chlorophycaea, Ulvophycaea and Charophytes |
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Chlorophyta - Green Algae |
unicellular and multicelluar fillaments- colony 10,000 species |
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Chlorophycaea |
2,600 species marine and fresh water |
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Ulvophycaea |
dyanmic organisms marine and fresh water |
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Charophytes |
marine and fresh water order charales |
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Order Charales |
sister to kingdom Plantae |
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Bryophyte 3 Division |
Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Anthocerotophyta |
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Non Vascular Plants |
poikilohydric no root system gametophyte stage |
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Archegonia |
produce egg cells |
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Antheridia |
produce sperm cells |
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Bryophyta |
mosses 10,000 species |
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Marchantiophyta |
liver warts 2,000 species 2 morphologies Gammae cups microscopic sporophytes |
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2 morphologies of Marchantiophyts |
Thallose - large flat body Leafy - overlapping leaves |
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Gammae cups |
undergo sexual reproduction |
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Anthocerotophyta |
horn warts less than 100 species |
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Vascular plants |
spend life in sporophyte |
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Xylem |
connective tissue that transports water throughout the plant |
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phloem |
tubes that transport products of photosynthesis throughout plant |
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Homeohydric |
able to maintain water balance |
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Lycophyta |
seedless non flowering haploid |
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Lycopodiales |
homosporous : same spore size |
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Strobilus |
cone like structure where sporangia are found |
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sporangium |
structure where spores are found |
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In homosporous plants, gametophyte contains __ and ___ |
archegonia and antheridia |
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Selaginellales and Isoetales |
have sporangia that contain spores that have different sizes : heterosporous |
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Microspore |
only bears antheridia |
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megaspore |
only bears archegonia |
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Monilophytes - ferns |
5 clades monophyletic group |
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3 major clades of Monilophytes |
Psilotales- whisk ferns Equisetopsida - horsetails polypodiales - letposporangiate ferns |
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Seed plants and Lycophytes are ___ of ferns |
outgroups |
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Psilotales |
whisk ferns 2 genera no leaves photosynthetic stem homosporous |
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Equisetopsida |
horsetails single genus 10-12 species no photosynthetic leaves, only stem sporangia and spores inside strobilus homosporous |
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Polypodiales |
Leptosporangia ferns aquatic ferns heterosporous, all others homo 11,000 species |
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Leptosporangia |
single epidermal cell where sporangia arise |
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annulus |
ring of cells that surround sporangium |
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Indusia |
flap of tissue that protects sporangia |
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sorus |
reproductive structures found |
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function of annulus |
help spores disperse by drying out |
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number of spores when released from leptosporangia |
64 |