Evolutionary History & Categorization
What is binomial nomenclature?
The definition of the Biological Species Concept.
What is the name of the term defined as "a group of populations whose members have the potential to interbreed with one another in nature & produce fertile offspring (offspring that can reproduce) "
The first life to evolve on Earth.
What are Prokaryotes?
The closest evolutionary relative that came before the evolution of modern-day plants.
What is Green Algae?
The "mushroom" part of the fungus; it's reproductive structure.
The mechanism Darwin used to explain Evolution.
What is Natural Selection?
The definition of Gene Flow.
What is "genetic exchange with another population, causing evolutionary change?"
The definition of a Protist.
What does "a catch-all category that includes all eukaryotes that are not fungi, plants, or animals" describe?
The 2 halves of a plant's structure that allow it to survive on land.
What are the Root & Shoot Systems?
How fungi get energy (aka how fungi "eat").
What is heterotrophic absorption?
Fossils, homologies, vestigial structures, embryology, and molecular biology.
What are examples of evidence supporting the theory of evolution?
The 2 types of genetic drift that can be observed.
What are the Founder Effect & the Bottleneck Effect?
Prokaryotes that help extract nutrients from food, perform "housekeeping," guard the body against disease-causing intruders.
Why are human microbiotas important?
What sets plants apart evolutionarily.
What are photosynthetic organisms with terrestrial/vascular adaptations?
Why Mycorrhizae/Mycelium are important.
What are nitrogen-fixers for plants? What organisms have symbiotic relationships with plants?
The importance of the Miller-Urey experiment.
What experiment answered the question, "How did we get complex, organic molecules from an atmosphere composed of small, inorganic molecules?"
The three types of postzygotic barriers.
What are Reduced Hybrid Viability, Reduced Hybrid Fertility, & Hybrid Breakdown?
The names of the 2 main bacteria talked about in lecture.
What are Staphylococcus aureus & Clostridium botulinum?
Reasons plants are important to human society.
What are food sources, building materials, fuel, ecosystem regulation, protection, & environmental health?
Some examples of parasitic fungi.
The scientist who developed our system of categorization of species, leading to the development of the field __________.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?; taxonomy
The 5 types of prezygotic barriers.
What are Temporal Isolation, Habitat Isolation, Behavioral Isolation, Mechanical Isolation, & Gametic Isolation?
Pros & cons of archaea & bacteria.
The proper order of the evolution of our 4 main plant groups.
What is "Bryophytes, Ferns, Gymnosperms, & Angiosperms?"
The pros & cons of fungi.
What are decomposers, chemical regulators, food sources, medicines, & parasites?