BIOL10005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Protist, Comparative Anatomy, Cambrian Explosion

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LECTURE 23
EVOLUTION & CLASSIFICATION
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KINGDOM PROTISTA KINGDOM PLANATE
KINGDOM FUNGI KINGDOM ANIMALIA
Protista: algae, cilia, flagellates, disease causing organisms (malaria causing organisms)
Animalia:
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BIOL10005 - GENETICS & THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE
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ORIGIN OF LIFE
What forces
shaped life?
Evolution through
natural selection;
all living organisms
result from descent,
with modification,
from a common
ancestor, and share
a common cellular
biochemistry and
genetics.
INFLUENCES OF
CATASTROPHIC
EVENTS
(right)
There are abiotic
factors which can
be important in
driving evolution,
including
catastrophic events such as asteroid impacts.
One of these snowball events is hypothesised to have occurred a bit over 500 million years ago.
This led to the Cambrian explosion, which led to the rise of the more complex, modern animal
phyla that we know today.
Origin of earth - 4.5 billion years
Oldest fossils - 3.5 billion years
Oxygen producing photosynthesisers - 2.7 billion years
CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION (540 MYA)
Led to the rise of the more complex, modern animal phyla that we know today.
EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
Key evidences include;
Palaeontology and the fossil record.
Comparative anatomy of cells and organisms.
Embryology.
Transition through animals embryology tells about the evolution of the organism.
Comparative biochemistry and
molecular biology.
Due to advances in technology.
Structure of DNA, gene sequences.
PALAEONTOLOGY AND THE FOSSIL
RECORD
Gives info about organisms that used to
exist but that no longer exist.
Tells us about past distributions.
Allows us to predict things.
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Kingdom fungi kingdom animalia: protista: algae, cilia, flagellates, disease causing organisms (malaria causing organisms, animalia: Origin of life: what forces shaped life, evolution through natural selection; all living organisms result from descent, with modification, from a common ancestor, and share a common cellular biochemistry and genetics. Cambrian explosion (540 mya: led to the rise of the more complex, modern animal phyla that we know today. Evidence of evolution: key evidences include, palaeontology and the fossil record, comparative anatomy of cells and organisms, embryology, comparative biochemistry and molecular biology, due to advances in technology, structure of dna, gene sequences, transition through animal(cid:282)s embryology tells about the evolution of the organism. Record: gives info about organisms that used to exist but that no longer exist, tells us about past distributions, allows us to predict things. Classification: how do we deal with all this biodiversity, evolution has given rise to an enormous diversity of living organisms (approx.

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