LIFESCI 2- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 152 pages long!)
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Ice melting is driven by increase in entropy: breakdown of molecules = increasing entropy, cells must work against entropy to maintain order, heat generated by cellular processes will increase entropy of the surroundings, potential vs. Combustion of methane (more examples in powerpoint: oxygen-rich conditions: 4(c-h)=4(413)=1652 -----> 1(o2)= 495. Lecture 2 & 3 &4 & 5: week 1 (10/02 & 10/04 & 10/06 $ 10/09) Influenced by principles of geology: first used the term artificial selection. Variation must be heritable: variation leads to differential survival & differential reproductive success, some alleles passed on with greater freq. Bc those individuals have greater fitness: ns = limited resources, variation in population, variation in heritability, differential survival, differential reproductive success, change in allele overtime = evolution --> acts on individuals & changes population. Northern elephant seals: hunted for blubber to make oil so had less than 100 in 1890s.
