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____ - before fertilization
Prezygotic
____ ____ - "parts don’t fit"
Mechanical Isolation
____ - A group of organisms that maintains a distinctive set of attributes in nature
Species
____ - Evolutionay changes that create new species and groups of species, occurs by accumulation of microevolutionay changes
Macroevolution
____ are identified by having a unique combination of traits. Historically used physical traits, now can use DNA sequences.
Species
____ ____ ____- process through which natural selection keeps two groups separate, prevents interbreeding and thus the development of one single species
Reproductive Isolating mechanisms
Prezygotic isolating mechanisms-
Temporal isolation
Behavioral isolation
Mechanical isolation
Gametic isolation
Habitat isolation
Postzygotic isolating mechanisms-
Zygotic mortality/inviability
Hybrid sterility
Hybrid breakdown
Underlying cause of _____ is the accumulation of genetic changes that ultimately promote enough differences so that we judge a population to constitute a unique species
speciation
____ - small, progressive changes in a single species over long periods = sequence of species, no increase in # of species
Anagenesis
____ - cluster of species all derived from single common ancestor (most common)
Cladogenesis
____ ____ - geographical isolation results in new species, gene flow between populations slows or stops (most common way cladogenesis occurs)
Allopatric speciation
____ ____ - one group spreads out into new areas, undergoes new adaptations
Adaptive radiation
____ ____ - new species evolves in same area as parental species (more common in plants)
Sympatric speciation
____ resistance - great proof of evolution
Antibiotic
Overuse of antibiotics (including soap etc) kills all susceptible ____, leaving only resistant ____ to multiply and "dominate"
bacteria
bacteria
____ infections are also very notorious for being very antibiotic resistant
Staph
When one species goes extinct - often have ____ ____ of other animals - classic example of dinosaurs gone, the mammals exploded and take over food resources, niches etc
adaptive radiation
____- modern humans and their extinct immediate human ancestors
Hominin
____ - all modern and extinct great apes and humans
Hominid
4 types of great apes,
chimps
orangutangs
gorilla
bonobo
Not descended from apes - from a ____ ____
common ancestor
Can viruses evolve - ____, although not technically alive, they have dna which ____ over time
yes
changes
Family human tree,not a pretty line it is ____
Cladogenesis
____ - see threats, see prey
Can travel over long expanses faster, increases endurance
Expend less energy, frees up hands for grasping/using tools
Reduce exposure to hot sun and increase exposure to cooling winds - to help cool of brain and could help be another why we evolved as a species
Bipedal
Approx ____ species of dinosaurs have been discovered with ____ more yet to find -

Eat everything but not ____ which had not evolved yet
700
700-900
grass
What percent of species that have existed are now extinct - over ____
99 percent
How many major mass extinctions have occurred on earth? ____ , but 70 percent of scientists think we are in a ____ right now (over hundreds of years)
5 known
6th
____ - 20 to 90 percent of species going extinct
Major mass extinction
Major causes of a ____-
Asteroid or comet
Volcanic eruptions
Sustained global cooling or warming
Falls in sea level
Massive land formation
Major mass extinction
Modern humans not descended from _____- coexisted with each other for several hundred thousand years, no interbreeding
neaderthals
Thousands of descendants - from a single pair
Evolved an entirely new digestive tract structure (cecal valve) ruminant of sorts
Have evolved larger heads and overall size
Have evolved a harder bite
Behavior and physiology changed - generally estimate it should take 10s of thousands to millions of years, but happened here in 30 generations due to the invasion of a new habitat which drives the evolution, and drives up adaptations
Italian Wall Lizards
____ - inability to change/adapt = disappearance of species
Extinction
____- often accelerates evolution for remaining species, allows a new species or group to become dominant
Extinction
Survival of each species depends on how well it fits into changing ____
environments
____ encompasses taxonomy and phylogeny
Systematics encompasses taxonomy and phylogeny
____ - naming, describing, classifying organisms.
Taxonomy
____ - evolutionary relationships
Phylogeny
Human Taxonomy
Domain: Eukaryotes
Kingdom : Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: Sapiens
Taxonomy
Dear King Philip (george w/ plants) Came Over From Germany Starving.
For taxonomy ____ is most inclusive, ____ is the most exclusive
Kingdom
Species
species or ___ ____
specific epithet
the scientific name is ____ and ___ (____)
genus
species (specific epithet)
____ scientific name,
____ if handwritten!
Italicize
Underline
Don’t just look at descriptive term in the____ ____.
All the way down the classes to see how closely related
specific epithet
Most closely related invertebrate is the ____, from reading phylogenetic tree
echinodermata
____ - branch splitting off from main branch
Node
Always indicate time by the ____ ____ (____ of the branches)
Y axis
length
____ or ____ ____ is the bottom one
root
root organism
____ is the ____ of the branch
tip
tip
____ - separate evolution from the others (not closely related to other groups)
outgroup
____ taxa - very closely related (____ group, ____ family, ____ genus etc etc) separated recently
Sister
A ____ is a group of species that includes an ancestral species and all of its descendants
clade
____ lack indication of time versus, phylogentic tree
cladograms
Often used to form the basis for a phylogentic tree
____ - Just a representive diagram to illustrate relationships,
Shared characteristics
cladograms
in clades, ____ most often ____ and ____ not often
Monophyletic
Paraphyletic
Polyphyletic
Morphological characteristics was first ____, but now based on ____
separation
evolution
____ are more related to eukaryotes
Archaea
____ are catchall for everything misc.
Protista
3 domains of life
Eukaryotes
Prokaryotes
Archaea
No ____ are known to cause disease in humans
archaea
____ live in every known environment on earth
Bacteria
prokaryote features
Named according to their shape
Only move forward or reverse
Do not have chromosomes,
Small ring of dna that can be transferred easily
Prokaryote Reproduction
1 cell split into 2 = 2 asexual reproduction

Conjugation, donor cell and recipient cell
Get a transfer of dna from one cell to another
____ - make bacteria invincible of sorts, can survive extreme conditions
Endospore
At first glance ____ appear to be more primitive, but they are not ____ are (evolutionary)
archaeans
bacteria
Most archaeans are ____.
extremophiles
Bacteria:
Spherical ____
Rod ____
Spiral ____
s, cocci
r, bacilli
spir, spirilli
Cyanobacteria
Plant like and photosynthetic, grow in huge colonies
But are bacteria
Basis of many food chains, w/o them there would be no food chain
Are also important because ancestor was responsible for initially putting oxygen in the atmosphere
First photosynthetic organism to put that oxygen in the atmosphere
____ - using bacteria, using life to remove toxic junk
Bioremediation
The chemical makeup is the biggest difference between archaea and ____.
bacteria
____ - used to be known as blue-green algae
cyanobacteria
____ - require at least 2M concentration of salt (NaCl), = 10x ocean salt water
Halophiles
____ - thrive at between 60-80 C
Thermophiles
On average ____ ____ individual bacteria on every square inch of human skin.
50 million
It is estimated that over ____ different species of microorganisms (mainly ____) inhabit a healthy human body
200
bacteria
Bacteria and archaea, also known as ____, length or width typically falls between ____ and ____ ____.
microbes
1
10
micrometers
Eukaryote Divisions
Protists
Fungi
Plants
Animals
____: Membrane bound organelles!
Eukaryotes
____! = protist
Colonial photosynthetic protist, not a ____
Responsible for at least half of the oxygen in the atmosphere
algae
plante
____- "false feet"
Pseudopod
Protist "Feeding"
Ingest their prey, cilia sweep food particles into their gullet.
Or absorptive, from the environment
Locomotion:
Amoeba - moves by ____
Flagella - long ____ ____ (flagellate). ex. ____
Cilia - ____ ex. ____
pseudopod
whiplike tail, Euglena
ciliates, Parameciaum
____ acquire their nutrients by absorption
____ digestion
Fungi
Extracellular
Most fungi are made up of these threadlike structures, ____, form body and roots and absorption takes place through these etc
Hyphae
Yeasts are unusual ____ - absorb from their ____
fungi
environment
____ - Decomposers!, super important
(also bacteria and protists are decomposers too)
fungi
____ ____ - discovered penicillin
Alexander Fleming
Algae is not a ____!
plant
fungi phrase
Freddi fungi took a likin to alice algall
____, on rocks on trees, can grow in many places that other stuff cannot grow
Combination of features - photosynthesis from ____ and absorptive from the ____
Lichen
algae
fungi
Ringworm - a ___!
Mold - a ____!
30% of ____ are parasitic on plants or animals
fungus
fungus
fungus
Phytoplankton = ____
Lichen - ____ and ____
protists
fungus, bacteria
____ - form relationships with other organisms
Symbionts
Ants have ____ in them to break down plant material (through ____ enzymes)
fungi
fungal
____ - close relationship between a fungus and the roots of a plant, helps with absorptive functions
Mycorrhizae
Majority of plants have ____ in the roots
fungus
____ - technical term for mosses
bryophyte
____ - naked (naked seed, not enclosed w/in anything)
Gymno
____ - covered
Angio
____ = vascular, no seeds
Pteridophytes
____ = standing tall, most have seeds
Except ferns and horsetails- no seeds = reproduction tied to ____
Vascular
water
____ - pine trees, evergreens
Gymnosperms
____ - other stuff, flowering plants
(grass, flowers, deciduous plants)
Angiosperms
Fruit - ripened ____ of the plant

Eating of the fruit, an ____ tactic to ____ away from the "mother plant"
ovary
evolutionary
disperse
____ - most common type of angiosperm
Dicot
___ multiples of 3 (flowers)
Veins in parallel - think blade of grass
Monocot
____ multiples of 4 or 5 (flowers)
Netlike leaf veins
Dicot
____ are found in gametophyte - gamete producing plant (produces egg and sperm)
Haploid
____ are found in sporophyte - spore producing plant
Diploid
____ = full set of chromosomes (46 in humans)

____ = half (23 in humans)
Diploid
Haploid
____ blood - blood clots in presence of bacteria, use in space station, labs etc to tell if lab is clean
Horseshoe
Multicellular
Food by ____ (____ digestion vs fungus is extracellular digestion)
ingestion
intracellular
Domain Eukaryo
3 main chars
Heterotrophs
Currently 34 phyla
Mobile at some point in life
All animals except sponges are either ____ or ____
diploblasts
triploblasts
Sponge - unique, conglomeration of cells
____- beside, ____ = beside/similar to animals
para
parazoan
biology is the science of ____
exceptions
All triploblasts are bilateral except adult ____.
echinoderms
Degree of ____ - having a definite head region, usually with feeding and sensory features
cephalization
Diploblasts - ____, ____
No ____
cnidarians
ctenophorans
mesoderm
Only ____ lack tissues, all other animals have tissues; they are called ____.
sponges
eumetazoans
____ ____ - a fluid filled space separating the digestive tract from the outer body wall if they have this they are called ____
body cavity/coelom
coelomates
No diploblasts have the ____ because it comes from mesoderm.
coelom
Allows heart to beat, lungs to expand and collapse, stomach to move around --- w/o affecting your body/ movement
Also protects those organs
body cavity/coelom
____ - not a true ceolome, not evolved from the mesoderm
pseduocoelomate
____ - no space, tissues all packed together (no coelome)
Acoelomate
____ - sperm and egg united
Zygote
Only coelomate animals:
One little opening starts first, the ____ - either the mouth or anus
blastopore
____ - mouth develops first
Protostome
____ - mouth develops second (anus first)
Deuterostome
____ (____) - no tissues, no symmetry
-____ (do not move)
-digest food that flows through cells from water (____ ____)
porifera (sponges)
sessile
filter feeder
____ - sac body plan, radial symmetry, tentacles
Cnidarians
____ Either polyp or medusa body form
Medusa - free moving
Polyp not moving
Stinging tentacles, jellyfish only 1 opening food in and waste out same opening
Incomplete ____ system
Cnidarians
digestive
____ (____) bilateral symmetry, Very ____, one opening to the digestive system, no coelom, many are ____
Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
flat
parasites
____ (____) - Pseudocelomate (earlier slides were acelomate)
Mouth and anus! Superabundant - known at least ____ species. In every environment - many are parasites
Nematodes (roundworms)
80,0000
____ - segmented worms
little segments on an earthworm,
New development - closed circulatory system, blood is contained w/in blood vessels
Annelids
____ - foot, soft body, mantle (skirtlike tissue that protects body - may secrete shell), coelom
Molluscs
____ - largest phylum of animals
Arthropod
____ - jointed appendage, includes insects, crabs, spiders (not insects)
Each segment has a specific function
Chitin exoskeleton

Most groups have ____ circ system (insects don’t they have an ____ circ system)
Have a ____ digestive system
Arthropod
closed
open
complete
____ -Internal Skeleton, Pentaradial symmetry, water vascular system - allows their tiny feet to propel them (many, hundreds, tiny suction cups)
Echinoderms
3 subphylums in phylum chordata
Tunicata- tunicates
Cephalachordata- lancelets
Vertebrata- vertebrates
Chars of Chordates (some point in the lifecycle)
(MD NP)
Notochord
Dorsal, hollow nerve cord
Pharyngeal slits or clefts
Muscular, post-anal tail
Vertebrate replace the notochord with a series of vertebrate
3 classes of fish
(OAC)
Agnatha - jawless, parasitic
Chondrichthyes- (cartilage skeletons, open gill slits) sharks, rays, skates
Osteichthyes- (hidden gill slits) ray-finned and lobe finned (lobe still have their lungs)
Class ____ - evolved from lobe-finned fishes, most return to water to reproduce - external fertilization, skin must stay moist (for respiration, as well as lungs) - breathe with skin as well as lungs
Frogs and salamanders
amphibia
____ - shelled amniotic egg, makes reproduction on land possible, also have internal fertilization
Membranes in egg helps to prevent evaporation, don’t need water/be water based
Alligators, crocs, snakes, turtles
reptilia
____ - endothermic (all previous groups have been ectothermic) "warmblooded" feathers, hollow bones, amniotic egg (endo - more nourishment, more repro etc)
Aves
____ - Oldest known bird, had feathered wings but more like small bipedal dinosaur
Archaeopteryx
50 percent of all mammals are ____
20 percent of all mammals are ____
rodents
bats
____ - hair and mammary glands!
Mammalia
____ - (first beast)
____ - egg-laying, but still nurse young, only two kinds
Spiny anteater and duck-billed platypus, both in australia
Prototheria
Monotremes
____ (beside beast)
Marsupials - young early, finish development in mother's pouch - most in australia (except a few opossum)
Metatheria
____ (true beast) majority of mammals
Placental Mammals - most mammals, placenta nourishes young within mother, safer, more efficient (safer/better chance of surviving in mother)
Eutherian
____ - the study of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment
Ecology
5 areas of ecological study
(L'cope)
Organismal ecology/Behavior
Population ecology
Community ecology
Ecosystem ecology
Landscape and Biome Ecology
____ components - living components
____ components - non living components
biotic
abiotic
____ is not the same as weather
climate
Macroclimate - global climate patterns

Microclimate - local variations in climate
Macroclimate
Microclimate
____ is composed of living and nonliving parts
ecosystem
____ ____
Biomes with a lot of vegetation
Ground layer - tall grasses, short shrubs, flowers
Low tree - short trees, dogwoods etc that don’t get massive
Canopy - tallest trees, leaves branch out, shade plants below
Vertical Stratification
____ ____ not ____
Closed canopy!, only sunlight is at that top, distinct characteristic of the tropical forest
All near the equator = tropic!
Tropical forest rainforest
____ -High temperatures and low vegetation
Desert
____/____ ____Think African ____
Most have a dry season
Most near the equator
Savanna/ Tropical Grassland
Savanna
____ ____
North america ____
Primarily have grasses
Cold winters!, not near equator so have fluctuations
Temperate grassland
grassland
____
Think wildfires in california, that is what is burning
Ecosystem is very well adapted to wildfires
Very dry, mild temperatures
Chaparral
____
All of eastern united states (angiosperms)
Temperate area - so 4 distinct seasons
Temperate deciduous forest
____ ____ (____/____)
Canada - russia, traditionally taiga/boreal forest
Evergreen forests (gymnosperms)
Long cold winters, but can have hot summers
Coniferous forest (Taiga/Boreal)
____
Arctic circle, above the coniferous forests
Low vegetation, small trees and shrubs - sound similar to a desert, only temperature
Tundra
Remember lentic - ...
Lotic - ....
still water (I = still)
streams and rivers (o = moving)
____ - damp damp soil
____ - very important, rivers meet oceans
____ ____ - deep water
Wetlands
Estuaries
Marine benthic
Changes in lotic system:
Lotic - moving water
Starts high in oxygen, low in nutrients
Ends low in oxygen, high in nutrients
Need to eat nitrogen - ____ are largely responsible for this
cyanobacteria
____ ____ - open blue water
____ ____- diverse group of cnidarians
____ ____ - along the shore
Oceanic pelagic
Coral reef
Intertidal zones
Lancelets and tunicates are chordates but not ____
vertebrates
____ - the study of interactions of organism with each other and their environment
Ecology
____ - what an animal does and how it does it
Behavior
____ ____ - study of behavior in natural
Environments from an evolutionary perspective
Behavioral ecology
Can do a cost/benefit analysis of any behavior, if ____ are greater ____ is adaptive
benefits
adaptive
____ answers the question how?
proximate
____ answer the question why? - typically evolutionary based questions
ultimate
____ ____ - based on experience/learning
Learned behavior
____ ____ = instinctual behavior
Innate behavior
What is responsible for that behavior learning or genes? ____ Comes up with many animals including people
both, example int is 50/50
All behavior has ____ basis
All behavior is modified by ____
genetic
environment
___
Only in litter bearing animals - not in humans and cows
i.e. rats, cats, dogs etc
Where you are in uterus can greatly affect what you are like later in life, because, males start pumping out testosterone early on in life, that can travel
IUP - Intra-uterine position effect
____ - information gained from experience is incorporated into nervous system, used to make changes in response
Learning
____ - learn to ignore repeated stimulus
Ex. Lab rat with loud noise
Habituation
____ ____ - association made between stimulus and response
Associative learning/conditioning
____ ____, pavlov with salivating response,
learned that dog can associate something not associated at all with food with food (bell ringing)
classical conditioning
____ - operate on your environment,
Positive or negative feedback
Operant
____ ____ = 99 percent of time how we train our animals
Operant conditioning
____ ____
Learning by observing another's performance
Number one way that children/ young humans learn
Observational learning/imitiation
Reinforcement Schedule in Operant Conditioning
____ - certain number of responses before you get that reward
____ - randomly get the reward
best way to keep behavior long term
____ - response rate declines when reinforcement withheld
Fixed
Variable
Extinction
In general ____ is a good way to learn, they already made the mistakes
observation
____ ____
New situation, able to put together previous
knowledge to solve a new problem
Insight Learning
____ - form association with another individual or object during critical period early in life; long-lasting
Imprinting
____ - Interaction of animals living in a social group
Sociobiology
Communication styles
CATV
Visual - bird
Auditory - dolphin
Chemical (olfactory/taste) - tiger
Tactile - ant
All animals ____
____ - dreams take place, most vivid here -- most important in terms of memory/learning
Infants/children 50% in ____ sleep
If sleep deprived, when you sleep you immediately go into ____ sleep
If you stop a rat from rem sleep, but all other stages after 2 weeks of deprivation = ____
sleep
REM
50%
REM
death
____ improve memory in monkey
Zebra finch doesn't show having learned complete song until after _____
naps
full nights sleep
Competition in vertebrates often determines ____
social system
Two types of hierachies
Dominance
Territory
____ -males provides protection and or food, reduces aggression level, risk of injury/death
territory hierarchy
____ - Alpha animal, beta etc basically ranked (alpha gets everything first, food mates etc, but highest level of stress)
Way to keep stress under control, pack animals need a pack to get food
dominance hierarchy
____ = direct reproductive success
direct fitness
____ - to benefit itself in terms of reproduction, food etc
Selfish
____, seen everywhere even bacteria, slime molds
Helps entire group even if it may hurt itself
Cooperative behavior
____ - not just your own offspring, but your genes that you care about
So risk you life to help your family relatives that are not your offspring, cousins, nieces etc
Inclusive fitness
____ - individual reduces their own fitness and increases the fitness of another individual
Risky!, often putting your life on the line
Altruism
2 behavioral explanations -
Reciprocal altruism
Inclusive fitness
____ - you scratch my back and ill scratch yours later, must be in a small social group, individuals not related to each other
Reciprocal altruism
____ - Vampire bats - after a hunt will regurgitate blood into the other (bats must feed every several nights or too weak to fly etc)
Baboon - only alpha mates, except when they form a coalition, number 2 & 3 go out and fine a mate, one mates and the other stands guard against number 1 to
Reciprocal altruism
Can calculate your _____

Will risk my life for 2 brothers or 8 cousins but not 1 brother
relatedness
Child abuse/ conflict much more common with ____
Not sure about study...
Deaths (of children) far more common with ____
stepchildren
stepparents
Does true selfless altruism exist in humans? ____
Argue it either way