Evolutionary Analysis Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Evolutionary analysis chapter 17 question and answers graded A+ 2023 passedOrigins of life (three possibilities) - correct answer 1) creation 2) extraterrestrial origin 3) spontaneous origin Every culture and religion has their own ________________________. - correct answer creation story... and there's usually a belief that everyone else's idea is ludicrous Christian views on origin of life - correct answer vary greatly creation stories - correct answer fall outside the realm of scie...

Evolutionary Analysis - Evolutionary Thinking question n answers graded A+ 2023Why can't we see al possible forms in nature? - correct answer Homology What is comparative anatomy? - correct answer The comparison of body parts that underlie the same design. It indicates common ancestry and divergent evolution. Their function and appearance can be very different. Define homologies. - correct answer Phenotypic and genetic similarities due to shared ancestry. Examples for mammals: - In...

Bio 414: Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 4 correctly answered to pass 2023What is phylogenetic tree (in comparison to a phylogeny)? - correct answer Same thing. A diagram showing the history of divergence and evolutionary change leading from a single ancestral lineage to a suit of descendants. Or an organisms' genealogical relationships as they are understood according to Darwin's theory of descent with modification from common ancestors. A phylogeny, phylogenetic tree, and evolutionary tree ar...

Evolutionary Analysis Ch 11 question and answers graded A+ 2023 passedSexual dimorphism - correct answer a difference between the sexes sexual selection - correct answer differential reproductive success due to variation among individuals in success at getting mates parental investment - correct answer energy and time expended both in constructing an offspring and caring for it males - correct answer when mothers make a larger parental investment than fathers, access to mates is a limit...

Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 3 PowerPoint question and answers graded A+ 2023What is Artificial Selection? Give an example - correct answer traits chosen from animals with the extremes of those traits and breed them EXAMPLES OF ARTIFICIAL SELECTION - correct answer Tomatoes (genetically determined differences shown) What do these data show us about fruit size in tomatoes? domesticated varieties of wild cabbage Darwin proposed 4 postulates (necessary conditions) of natural selection...

Bio 414: Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 2 question and answers graded A+ 2023When did James Usher suggest that life on Earth started and how did he arrive at this particular date? - correct answer Suggested that Earth started at 4004 BC by the theory of special creator. What are the two components of the theory of Special Creation? - correct answer 1. A series of claims: all species are immutable (do not change since their origin), species were recently created, and variation among individuals...

Bio 414: Evolutionary Analysis Ch. 6 question and answers graded A+ 2023Restate the theory of evolution from a "population genetics" standpoint. - correct answer Changes in the relative abundance of traits in a population can be tied to changes in the relative abundance of the genetic variants that influence them (integrates evolution by natural selection with Mendelian genetics) Why is it important to establish a null model for how genes frequencies (like the delta 32 CCR5 allele) should b...

Evolutionary Analysis chapter 5 PowerPoint question and answers graded A+ 20233 kinds of variation 3 things that add up to phenotypic variation - correct answer genetic differences due to environmental differences the interaction between genotype and enviornment 1 does one thing the other does another and they both together do something different genetic variation - correct answer Skin color differences seen in newborns Environmental variation - correct answer Change in skin co...

Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 4 PowerPoint question with complete solution graded A+ 2023What is taxonomy? - correct answer naming and classifying What is phylogeny? - correct answer evolutionary history What is the difference between the two? - correct answer What is a phylogenetic tree? - correct answer What can we infer from a phylogenetic tree? - correct answer the evolutionary histories, what species gave rise to certain species. How did those parental species occur. Derive...

Evolutionary Analysis Chapter 1 Notes 2023 updated to passHIV - correct answer An intracellular parasite incapable of reproducing on its own. It invades specific types of cells in the human immune system. The virus makes copies of itself by hijacking the host's cells and killing those cells off in the process. Virion - correct answer Extracellular form of a virus Coreceptor inhibitors - correct answer Bar HIV from entering host cells in the first place by preventing them from latching ont...