BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lists Of Invasive Species, Ringen, Eichhornia Crassipes
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Bio120 lecture 1 &2 - i(cid:374)t(cid:396)odu(cid:272)tio(cid:374) to e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)a(cid:396)y (cid:271)iology & da(cid:396)(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s (cid:271)ig idea a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) it changed biology. Content: introduction to evolution section, how evolution is studied, biodiversity and adaptation, projects in the barrett lab. Ultimate tractable answered by one questions questions questions can experiment; Involve determining involve help contribute requires multiple the physiological or determining towards solving a lines of evidence. genetic the ecological big question. E. g. why did sex mechanisms function and. E. g. flowers question reasons to climate explain boom in may. When the behaviour stopped: experimental, manipulate a system to address a specific hypothesis, requires an experimental design and statistical analysis, most important one! Important assumptions about evolution verified by scientific study. Organisms on earth have changed through time. The changes are gradual not instantaneous gradualism. Lineages split or branch by speciation resulting in the generation of biodiversity. Most evolutionary change results from natural selection: the only process responsible for the evolution of biodiversity and adaption.
