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CH. 1 + 2 (What is Evolution + Written in the Rocks)
What was the case of kitzmiller e...,
William paley,
Evolution
28
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CH. 3 (Vestiges, Embryos, and Bad Design)
Vestiges, Embryos, and Bad Design
16
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CH. 4 (Geography of Life)
What and where is the juan fernan...,
Endemic,
What does juan fernandez lack
19
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CH. 5 (Engine of Evolution)
Engine of Evolution
22
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CH. 6 (Why Sex?)
Why Sex?
22
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CH. 7 (Origin of Species)
What did darwin not explain,
Problems with the morphological s...,
Cryptic species
24
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CH. 8 + 9 (What about Us?)
Raymond dart,
Australopithecus africanus,
Taungs child
39
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Lecture 1: What is Evolution?
Theory of evolution,
Important conclusions about evolu...,
Biodiversity
9
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Lecture 2: Darwin's Big Idea
Argument from design,
Jean baptiste de lamarck 1744 1829,
Charles darwin
12
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Lecture 3: What Darwin Saw (Evidence for Evolution)
Where did hms beagle go,
What did darwin collect on his vo...,
What is fishapod
8
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Lecture 4: Evolutionary Significance of Genetic Variation
Where does heritable variation co...,
What is mutation,
Mutations can be
32
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Lecture 5: Genetic Variation (models and measurement)
Who provided the foundations for ...,
What is neo darwinism,
What factors influence patterns o...
24
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Lecture 6: Sex, Reproductive systems, and Evolution
What are the two types of reprodu...,
What are the two types of sexual ...,
Dioecious
23
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Lecture 7: Population Structure, gene flow, and Genetic Drift
Population,
Migration,
Gene glow
24
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Lecture 8: Natural Selection and Adaptation
Fitness,
Selective advantage,
Adaptation
14
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Lecture 9: Species + Lecture 10: Phylogenetics
Why did early researchers doubt e...,
Main definitions of species,
Sympatric
49
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Lecture 11: Evolutionary Complexity
What is lamarcks view of evolution,
Which lineages have more complexity,
Greater complexity in an organism...
22
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Lecture 12: Applied Evolution
What is the relevance of evolutio...,
What is the relevance of evolutio...,
Where does resistance come from a...
12
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Lecture 13: Ecology
Ecology,
Who proposed endosymbiotic theory...,
How many species of eukaryotes ar...
16
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Lecture 14: Climate and other Niche Axes
Ecological niche,
Hutchinsonian niche,
Hadley cell
39
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Lecture 15: Physiological Ecology
Physiology,
Core concepts of physiological ec...,
Biodiversity
18
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Lecture 16: Plant Ecophysiology
Sessile,
What nutrients are needed for growth,
What does photosynthesis use and ...
26
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Lecture 17: Population Ecology
Population density,
Why do we care about population size,
Modern malthus
18
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Lecture 18: Age Structured Populations
Fecundity and survivorship depend on,
Key components of life history st...,
Without age structure n 24 indivi...
19
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Lecture 19: Community Ecology
Intraspecific competition,
Interspecific competition,
Lotka volterra equations
28
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Lecture 20: Predation, Parasitism, and Disease
Brood mimicry,
Predation carnivory,
Parasitism disease
20
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Lecture 21: Mutualism and Symbiosis
Symbiosis,
Mutualism,
Nutritional mutualisms
27
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Lecture 22: Dispersal, Metapopulations, and Island Biogeography
How is sweet fleshy fruit an adap...,
Dispersal allows organisms to,
Metapopulation and metacommunity
24
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Lecture 23: Trophic Relationships and Plant-Animal Interactions
Primary producers,
Primary consumers,
Secondary consumers
19
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Lecture 24: Synthesis and Climate Change
How is climate change affecting h...,
What happens to organisms as the ...,
To what extent can acclimation he...
8
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Appendix A
Scientific method flow,
The scientific method enables us to,
Questions must be
14
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Appendix B
Chi square test,
Continuous variable,
Discrete variable
45
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Appendix C
Assumptions of the hardy weinberg...,
Founder effect,
In general genetic drift will cau...
3
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LAB CHAPTERS 1-5
How do you understand if a certai...,
Adaptations for viability,
Adaptations for competition for m...
67
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Why Ecology Matters CH. 1
What limits distribution of species,
How is climate change changing di...,
What prevents dispersal movements
12
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Reading: I Contain Multitudes
Hemiptera,
Plant sap is rich in but poor in,
What do buchnera bacteria do for ...
14
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Reading: Decline of the North American Avifauna
Extinction begins with,
Why did they study birds,
In which biome did birds populati...
7
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Struggle for Existence pt. 4
Most important environmental vari...,
Highest density of photons,
Seasonal variation occurs as a re...
29
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Struggle for Existence pt. 5
Organisms are,
Abiotic factors can be divided into,
Limiting factors
32
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Struggle for Existence pt. 6
How are age differences treated i...,
Age structured models only accoun...,
First age class is denoted by sub...
46
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Struggle for Existence pt. 7
Ecological community,
Ecosystem,
Community study
31
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Struggle for Existence pt. 9
Autotrophs,
Heterotrophs,
Second trophic level
27
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Random Lab Tidbits
Hunter hypothesis,
Requirements for zoonotic transmi...,
How do we assess whether hiv was ...
5
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Simutext
Geometric growth assumes,
Geometric growth model applies to,
Where did soybean aphids come from
23
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