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1 Intro to Evolution, Biodiversity and Deep Time
What are the 6 propositions of ne...,
What is biodiversity 2,
What is taxonomy 3
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2 Classifying Life
What are the taxonomic ranks 1,
What are ghost lineages 2,
Blank 3
16
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3 Origin of Life
What happened to earth 4600 mya 1,
What happened to earth 3750 mya 2,
Why is the moon classed as a dead...
22
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4 Origin of Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
What is the evidence for prokaryo...,
What is the importance of rubisco...,
When did prokaryotes evolve 3
16
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5 Origin of Sex and Multicellular Organisms
What happens to acritarchs at 950...,
What is the idea of snowball earth 2,
What caused snowball earth scenar...
14
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6 The Cambrian Explosion
What characteristics do metazoans...,
How has the problem of the origin...,
What has been dated to the late p...
13
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7 Evidence For Evolution
What is artificial selection 1,
How has artificial selection gene...,
Why was artificial speciation use...
14
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8 Natural Selection
What is the basic idea of natural...,
What conditions are necessary for...,
What are the types of variation 3
11
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9 Selfish Genes
What is altruistic behaviour 1,
What is an altruistic action in g...,
What are examples of altruistic b...
13
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10 Sexual Selection
What is sexual selection 1,
What is sexual dimorphism 2,
What is intrasexual selection 3
16
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Evolution In Real Time
What do we know about the rate of...,
What is an example of rapid micro...,
Why might a species go extinct if...
14
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12 Evolution and Conservation
How do human activities change th...,
What are the consequences of chan...,
How have causes of extinction cha...
13
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13 Speciation
What is a biological species 1,
What is reproductive isolation 2,
What type of selection is speciat...
15
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14 Macroevolution
What is the difference between gr...,
Why are apparent bursts of change...,
What is required for fossilisation 3
12
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15 Extinction
What are the types of extinction 1,
What is local extinction 2,
What is species extinction 3
25
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16 Mutation, Variation and Genome Organisation
What was the first theory of inhe...,
What are mutations 2,
What are the causes of mutation 3
25
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17 Mendelian Genetics
How are peas cross pollinated 1,
What was mendel s first cross 2,
What is the ratio for f2 progeny 3
14
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18 Mendelian Inheritance in Humans
What is a mendelian monogenic dis...,
What is a multifactorial disease 2,
How many mendelian characters are...
19
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19 Chromosomes and Linkage
Why were drosophila used in exper...,
What did morgan discover 2,
What does crossing red eyed and w...
13
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21 Intro to Population Genetics
What is a locus 1,
What is a polymorphism 2,
What does population genetics stu...
13
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