[BIOLOGY 1B] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (36 pages long!)
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Admin coordinator (enrollment, lab attendance, dsp, student athletes): Midterm 3 and final: monday, may 8, 8-11 am. Nachman (evolution) oh: mtw 9-10 am (vlsb 5045) Exam questions primarily from lecture, as well as from the book. Origin of universe is 13. 8 billion years ago with a big bang. Should be some background radiation that emanated from origin of the universe. Origin of the earth: 4. 5 billion years ago. Origin of life on earth: 3. 8 billion years ago. Earth represents about a third of history of the universe. Life has occurred for most of history of earth itself. Origin of anatomically modern humans was about 200,000 years ago. Humans have been around for a very short period of time on earth relative to other life. Humans represent only 0. 00005 of the time of life on earth. Life arose just once, through process of descent with modification gave rise to diversity of species today.
