Biology 1001A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Zoonosis, Comparative Anatomy, Drug Design
29 Oct 2018
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Why viral infections are usually difficult to treat with drugs. How viral mutation rate affects the prospects for drug design and vaccine development. Why the effectiveness of anti-viral drugs is likely to decrease over time. Principles underlying evolution by natural selection; heritable variation, non-random reproduction or survival, change in genotype of the population. Rationale for using multiple drugs simultaneously to treat viral infections. Evolutionary origins of hiv and what this means for developing a vaccine. Characteristics of epidemic, endemic, pandemic and zoonotic diseases. Examples of scala natura" thinking and why this type of classification is not compatible with modern evolutionary theory. Evidence from geology and the fossil record, the geographic distribution of species and comparative morphology that supports the idea of descent with modification from a common ancestor. How our understanding of evolution has changed since darwin. Misconceptions about evolution and natural selection, and why they are incorrect.
