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Study Guide Exam #4


The following is a study guide to help you as you study for your exam.

You need to understand and be familiar with the following terms, concepts

and definitions. Testquestions will be presented as multiple-choice,

true/false, fill-in the blanks, and essays.



Chapter #11, #12

Basic Idea of natural selection
Evolutionary adaptationFixed-Species idea
Lamarck and adaptive evolution
Adaptation
Acquired Characteristics
Darwin
Descent with Modification
Evidence of Evolution
Fossils
Paleontologists
ComparativeAnatomy
Homology
Comparative Embryology
Molecular Biology
Natural Selection & Adaptive Evolution
Observation#1 Overproduction
Observation#2 Individual Variation
Inference:Differential reproductive success (natural selection)
Natural Selection in Action
Population
Population Genetics
Polymorphic
Polygenic
Sources of Genetic variation
Mutations & SexualRecombination
Gene Pool
Frequencies
p & q
Hardy-Weinberg Formula

Microevolution
Genetic drift
Bottleneck Effect
Founder Effect
Gene Flow
Mutations
Natural SelectionsDarwinian Fitness
Three General Outcomes of Natural Selection
Directional
Stabilizing
Diversifying
Sickle-Cell Allele & Selective Pressure

Chapter #13

Bioterrorism
FermentationMajor Episodes in the History of Life
Prokaryotes
Single-Cell Eukaryotes
Multicellular eukaryotes
Origin of Life
Biogenesis
Four-Stage Hypothesis for the Origin of Life
Stage1:Abiotic Synthesis of Organic
Stage 2: Abiotic Synthesis of Polymers
Stage 3: Origin of Self-Replicating Molecules
Stage 4: Formation of Pre-Cells


Prokaryotes
Bacteria
ArchaeaThermophiles
Methanogens
Nature of prokaryotes
Unicellular form colonies
Types (Cocci, Bacilli, Spirochetes)
Flagella
Endospores
Binary Fission
Nutritional Diversity...