[01:119:116] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 18 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Biological Science
• Course: 01:119:116
• Professor: Dr.Christy Beal

Document Summary

Lecture 1 - classification review & virology: classification and evolution, classification. Science of describing, naming, & classifying organisms - binomial nomenclature: phylogeny. Evolutionary history of a species or group of related species. Groups from broad to narrow are domain to species. = grouping of organisms at any one of these levels: evolution. Changes in alleles over time (review hardy-weinberg rules) Differential survival and adaption (review darwin and natural selection) Community & ecosystem: basics of phylogeny. Branch point (nodes) - where lineages diverge 2, 3 , 4, 5. Sister taxa - taxon b & taxon c. Basal taxon - least related to everyone in the tree taxon g. Polytomy - taxon d, e, & f. Extant species - all species that are alive. Fig 26. 21 (tree of life with 3 domains) Virology: general characteristics, non-living, no cells - only genetic material & protein, metabolism - requires a cell, reproduction requires a cell. Obligate intercellular parasites (have to use a cell"s mechanisms)