[CAS BI 107] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (27 pages long!)
1 Dec 2016
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What is science?---everything that matters: derived from a court case (mcclean v. school board, guided by natural law (gravity, all science must be explained by natural law, testable against empirical world, conclusions are tentative, falsifiable. The cambrian explosion doushantuo fossils: thought to be eukaryotic, evidence suggested the fossils were sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, supported they were eukaryotic embryos, neither animals nor embryos, science is tentative and falsifiable. Charles darwin: father of evolution, wallace also founded evolution, raised by a wealthy family, dropped out of med school cause he hated it, boarded the beagle at 22, returned after 5 years and published origin of. Species in 1859 (about natural selection: microevolution is small changes in the pop. that eventually lead to macroevolution. Modularity allows for the expression of developmental control genes in different amounts, at different times, and in different locations of the embryo: heterometry--a difference in the amount of a gene produced ex.
