BIO120H1 Midterm: Term Test 2 - Fall 2017
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Climate & biomes, change along transects, species ranges. Laboratory: chapter 1: insect diversity and adaptation, chapter 2: phenotype plasticity, chapter 3: measuring genetic variation, appendix a: the scientific method, appendix b. In july 1837 darwin began his notebook on the transmutation of species and on page. 37 he wrote i think above his first evolutionary tree. How best to classify life systematics, taxonomy, and cladistics. Phylogenetic trees and the reconstruction of evolutionary history using molecular data. Character evolution, the origin of adaptations and key innovations. Hierarchical system of classification -think of it as boxes in boxes. Name is a key to the literature on an organism. Enables interpretation of origins and evolutionary history. You can then place in broader framework of microevolution and evolutionary tree. A named taxonomic unit at any level (plural = taxa. The study of biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among organisms. Schools of taxonomy: philosophical wars of the 70s & 80s.