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Father of Modern Taxonomy
Who was Carolus Linnaeus?
Similarity in species due to a common ancestor
What is Homology?
When the Precambrian ended and the Cambrian period began
What happened ~541 mya?
Model of what happens genetically in a non-evolving population
What is the Hardy-Weinberg Theorem?
Based on position in sedimentary rock
What is relative dating?
Father of Paleontology
Who was Georges Cuvier?
Four processes of evolution
What are 1. Natural selection, 2. Genetic drift, 3. Gene flow, 4. Mutation?
When we see the first evidence of oxygenic photosynthesis
What happened in the Archaean Eon, ~4000 to 2500 mya or 4 to 2.5 bya?
If these change from one generation to the next, microevolution is occurring
What is the frequencies of genotypes in a gene pool?
Three types of radioactive/metric dating
What are U-238 to Lead 206; K-40 to A-40; and C-14 to N-14?
Came up with Uniformitarianism
Who was Charles Lyell?
Recessive deleterious alleles
What are alleles that lower fitness?
When we see the first rocks containing evidence of abundant oxygen and also see first eukaryotic fossils.
What happened during the Proterozoic Eon, ~2500 to 541 mya?
The five criteria that an ideal HW population would meet
What is 1. Random mating, 2. No natural selection, 3. No genetic drift, 4. No gene flow, 5. No mutation?
Four limitations of the fossil record
What are 1. Habitat bias, 2. Taxonomic and tissue bias, 3. Temporal bias, and 4. Abundance bias?
Came up with Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Who was Jean Baptiste Lamark?
Four types of natural selection patterns
What are 1. Directional selection, 2. Stabilizing selection, 3. Disruptive selection, and 4. Balancing selection?
Scientists think this mass extinction was caused by changes in sea levels due to glacier formation and melting. ~440 mya.
What is the End/Late-Ordovician mass extinction?
p + q = 1
What is the HW equation for allele frequencies?
5 kinds of fossils
What are 1. Intact, 2. Compression, 3. Cast, 4. Permineralized, and 5. Trace fossils?
Worked in the Amazon basin and the Malay archipelago
Who was Alfred Russel Wallace?
Darwin's Four Postulates
What are 1. Individuals w/in species are variable, 2. Some of these variations are passed on to offspring, 3. More offspring are produced than can survive, and 4. Survival and reproduction of individuals are not random; the individuals who survive and go on to reproduce the most are those with the most favorable variation, and they are naturally selected.
Scientists think this mass extinction was caused by an asteroid hit on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and climate change due to volcanoes. ~66 mya
What is the End-Cretaceous mass extinction?
p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1
What is the HW equation for genotype frequencies?
Three main fossil deposits
What are the 1. Doushantuo, 2. Ediacaran, and 3. Cambrian fossil deposits?