Bio 1500 mizzou Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Recognize dragonflies as formidable aerial and aquatic predators - correct answer Dragonflies live in water for the first two years of their life. After this adult dragonflies hunt other flying insects while they are flying themselves; they cannot feed while walking or sitting. Identify dragonflies as ancient insects (when, what, why) - correct answer Carboniferious, meganura, first insects to fly, selection pressures Develop more than one hypothesis for why dragonflies were so big - corre...

dragon fly size - correct answer -high O2 levels in carboniferous allowed them to grow big -later in history predators constrained the max size O2 levels in atomosphere - correct answer cyanobacteria and green algae chloroplasts contributed.... through photosynthesis oldest fossils - correct answer 3.5-4 bya 1st insects - correct answer 480 mya 1st dinosaurs - correct answer 240 mya dinosaurs go extinct - correct answer 66 mya 1st homosapiens - correct answer 200k ya diffus...

What are the major functions of a protein? - correct answer Structural molecule to help define cell shape, transporting molecules within cells, acting as an enzyme to speed up chemical reactions, and acting as a signal between cells What are the major functions of a carbohydrate? - correct answer Energy storage molecule, acting as signal between cells, acting as a structural molecule to help define cell shape, and acting as a component of a cell membrane What are the major functions of lip...

Recognize dragonflies as formidable aerial and aquatic predators - correct answer Dragonflies live in water for the first two years of their life. After this adult dragonflies hunt other flying insects while they are flying themselves; they cannot feed while walking or sitting. Identify dragonflies as ancient insects (when, what, why) - correct answer Carboniferious, meganura, first insects to fly, selection pressures Develop more than one hypothesis for why dragonflies were so big - corre...

dragon fly size - correct answer -high O2 levels in carboniferous allowed them to grow big -later in history predators constrained the max size O2 levels in atomosphere - correct answer cyanobacteria and green algae chloroplasts contributed.... through photosynthesis oldest fossils - correct answer 3.5-4 bya 1st insects - correct answer 480 mya 1st dinosaurs - correct answer 240 mya dinosaurs go extinct - correct answer 66 mya 1st homosapiens - correct answer 200k ya diffus...