First Hour Exam in Biology 112 What to study... General Content
Your lecture notes are the place to start - in general, if I talked about it in class, I think it is important Your textbook has a good deal of material that complements what I said in class For example: genetic homologies were mentioned in the lecture, but you can get specific examples from the text book Intro Darwin's contribution Central Dogma Phenotype and Genotype Tree of Life and Woese Natural Selection Necessary Conditions Practical applications - how NS works - know how to see an example and decide what might happen if NS is working Sexual Selection Explain and Define fitness and adaptation Evidence for N.S. homologous vs. analagous traits types of homologies Ancestral and Derived vestigial cladistics Heritability Forces of Evolution Definition of Evolution Types of Selection Mutation Drift Gene flow Pop. Genetics / HW calculations and assumptions Speciation BSConcept REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION Isolating mechanisms Types of Speciation Allopatric Sympatric Parapatric Polyploidy History of Earth Cladistics Fossil Record Molecular Clock - how does it work?