BIO120H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 99 pages long!)
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The central unifying concept of bio, influential concept of western thought. Why- ecological & adaptive sig. of a trait. Mechs. ( process orientated and experimental) ¯oevolution = evolu. Lineages split or branch by speciation resulting n the generation of biodiversity. Most evolutionary change results rom natural selection - the only process responsible for the evolution of biodiversity and adaptation. Biodiv- the variety of life on earth/#&kinds of orgs in an area. Process: verb: process leading to origin of trait. Proff barrrett lab: darwin missing form of water hyacinth, patterns of genetic div. Founder events colonization by a few individuals that start a new population with only limited diversity compared with the source population. Reproductive success- example is the bird perch of rat tail. Hard to look at an organism and try to understand it without knowing its evolutionary history. What is the concept than the individual species. You don"t have to learn the species scientif names, scientific dates.
