BIOL 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Plasmodium Falciparum, Antibody, Hemoglobin

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Biology Courses
• Course: BIOL 118
• Professor: Terry Bird

Document Summary

Diff benefits+costs to asexual & sexual reproduction. Better to do asexual in human bc host is bigger. Harder for plasmodium bc has to evolve w/in two diff hosts. Falcipurim infects human & is most deadly. Not as easily transmitted fr person to person but is virulent. Dna analysis indicates closest to p reichenowi. More closely related or similar dna sequences are in species more closely related in evolution**** 15 mya apes breaking away from monkeys. Macaque (monkey), chimpanzee (ape) and humans have the same genes but sequences are different. Natural selection: survival & reproduction of the fittest within a species/population (not individual) over time. Charles darwin didn"t use the word evolution (bc it implied organisms become well adapted to the environment) Mutations happen at a slow steady measurable rate. Then if so, count up the number of differences btwn two species estimate of when two species diverged. Falcipurum & chenoweth + humans & chimps.