BIOL 2030 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Yes Album, Genetic Drift, Exponential Growth
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Midterm 1 review: part 1 (of final exam review) Phylogeny/phylogenetic tree: diagram with history of animal life, evolutionary lineages. Major goals: locate origins of developments such as multicellularity, coelom, spiral cleavage, vertebrae and homeothermy, understand historical processes that generate and maintain species and adaptations. Guided by natural law, must be explanatory, testable, tentative, falsifiable. Scientific method -hypothetic-deductive method: making a conjecture, then seeking empirical tests. Steps of the scientific method -observation, question, hypothesis, empirical test, conclusion, publication. Founders of theory of evolution by natural selection. Charles darwin and alfred wallace independently developed the same theory (1859) Transformational acquire characteristics and pass it on to its offspring. Darwin evolutionary change is based on differences that occur among organisms within a population. Law of physics and chemistry have not changed; led him to conclude that the earth"s age = millions of years.
