ANT100Y1 Lecture : Principles of Evolution

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Christopher Watts

Document Summary

Goals: understand microevolution, genetic basis of inheritance and biological evolution, population genetics, natural selection, adaptation, understand macroevolution, speciation, how to read a cladogram, how evolution works on a grand scale, the modern synthesis. The modern synthesis of evolution: focuses on how evolution works at level of phenotypes, genes, and population, microevolution, macroevolution. Cell: somatic cells: most cells in body (except sex cells, gametes: sex cells (sperm and ovum [egg], cytoplasm: complex mix of membranes, molecules, and tiny structures called organelles, nucleus: contains hereditary material known as chromosomes. Paired rod-shaped structures in cell nucleus containing genes that transmit traits form generation to generation. Dna: deoxyribonucleic acid: nucleic acid used to store genetic information that codes for the synthesis of proteins, four bases: adenine (a), guanine (g), cytosine, (c), thymine (t) Rna (ribonucleic acid) molecules: dictate synthesis of proteins that perform a wide variety of functions in body, regulate expression of other genes www. notesolution. com.