01:119:116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Enterobacteria Phage T4, Evolutionary Arms Race, Coevolution

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Classification and evolution, classification, taxonomy science of describing, naming, & classifying organisms binomial nomenclature, phylogeny evolutionary history of a species or group of related species. Taxonomy: species is basic level of classification. Descent with modification; change in alleles over time (review hardy-weinberg rules) Differential survival and adaptation (review darwin and natural selection) What are three types of diversity: genetic, species, community & ecosystem, basics of phylogeny. Components of a phylogenetic tree: branch point, sister taxa, basal taxon, polytomy, extant species not extinct. Virology (chapter 19: general characteristics, non-living, no cells only genetic material & protein, metabolism requires a cell, reproduction requires a cell, obligate intercellular parasites. Genetic material (dna or rna) varies by: type, size, shape, structures of viruses. Some viruses have envelopes on top of capsid comes from host hides virus: viral reproduction. Basic general features of viral reproduction: virus binds to host, genome enters cell, host copies viral genome & produces proteins, new virus assembles, exit host.

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