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46 Cards in this Set
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1/2 of the living organisms in the world are comprised of what type of species
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insects
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Dr. Nelson loves 'em
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1/4 of insects are comprised of this type of bug
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beetle (coleoplera)
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dung it!
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1/4 of living organisms are made up of this type of species
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plants
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not bugs
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cladogram
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tree representation of the relations of animals
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geneology
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Classification order, from greatest to smallest
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Kingdom
phylum class order family genus species |
KPCOFGS
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Ethel Waxham found beauty in what state?
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Wyoming
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more antelope than people
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psaticsorus
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parrot-like beak creature from ancient era
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caw! caw!
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Why do we have a head?
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sensory imput, rpocessing, food intake, nerves, brain
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lots of reasons. heads are good.
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if you're in a rainforest, and you shine a flashlight, what can you see?
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spider eyes, like "diamonds, pinpoints of light winking on and off"
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ewwww...
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Eidetic Image
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image that "brings it all back"
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for E.O. Wilson, it's the lightning
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EO Wilson quote on solitude
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"solitude is better for weeding out ideas than for creating them"
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weeding v. making
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What type of animals did Wilson think made up a "chorus"?
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red howler monkeys
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hey hey, we're the --, people say we -- around!
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What, according to Wilson, is the way of the non-human world?
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"the physical environment slams into the resilient forces of life, and nothing much happens."
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slams
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How much force does it take to break the ___ of evolution?
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crucible
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Tituba
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exterpation
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extinction in a local area
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like a mini-death
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According to wilson, what happens when man makes a big, new, persuasive idea?
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an army of cities soon gathers
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what would you do?
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FIVE MAJOR EXTINCTIONS
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ordovician, devonian, permian, triassic, Kretaceous
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odptk/c
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biggest extinction
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permian
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not triassic
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tertiary average
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it takes 20 million years to recover from an extinction
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involves extinction recovery
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What is memorable: size? ferocity?
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no, rarity
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3-part
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4 problems of biological species concept:
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sibling species, asexual species, hermaphroditic species, chronospecies
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sahc
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biological species concept
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natural interbreeding in a population
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3 part
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three sources of information
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controlled experiment, natural experiment, compilations of fortuitous info
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cnc
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what are the 4 major factors of banding?
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water, temperature, elevation, latitude
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characteristics of deserts
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about 30 degree latitude either direction; less than 10 cm. per year
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characteristics of chapparal
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shrubs, sometimes firetolerant, primarily located around mediterranean
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characteristics of cheatgrass
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short lifespan; springs up and then dies. "cheats" farmers out of land
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characteristics of savanna
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seasonal grasses, some trees(but no complete canopy), 90-150cm rain annually
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grasslands
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25-100 cm. taller grasslands get more rain.
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6 common elements
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C,H,O,N,P,S
Susan Peters Never Offers Hot Chocolate |
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hydrogen bonds
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weak attractions between partially charged atoms
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why is water important?
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polar, thermal buffer, cohesion, solvent
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organic compound
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compound containing carbon
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what is the quick storage form in biology?
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sugar
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4 most common carbs:
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cellulose: woody part of trees, starch, long-term energy in plants, glycogen: equivalent of starch for animals, chitin: insects & fungi
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3 uses of lipids
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fats, oils, and waxes
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2 main types of proteins
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structural and enzymes
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4-letter combo of nucleotides
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TGCA
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ATP Adenosine Triphosphate
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energy's common currency
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Species Richness
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# of species in a plot
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Species Abundance
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amount of one specific specie in a plot
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hadley cell
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process of making deserts more arid through evaporation and cooling
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abiotic factors
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light, temperature, moisture, water, nutrients, fire, edaphic factors
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edaphic factors
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factors related to soil
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homology
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same by genetics
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analogy
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same by function
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