BIO 112 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Local Extinction, Bycatch, Wildlife Trade

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Review sheet for bio 112 test 2. Bolded terms are terms you should definitely know the definition of. Italics indicate in class or out of class activities that helped you learn the concept (and may be helpful to think back on). Biogeochemical systems/cycles - carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen (biogeochemical cycles exercise) Reservoirs- a couple for each cycle we covered (biogeochemical cycles exercise) Source- at least 1 major natural (before industrial revolution) source for each cycle we covered (biogeochemical cycles exercise) Sink at least 1 major natural (before industrial revolution) source for each cycle we covered (biogeochemical cycles exercise) How humans have negatively impacted cycle for each cycle (biogeochemical cycles exercise) Eutrophication how it happens and connection to biogeochemical cycles. Eutrophication happens as water bodies, such as estuaries, slow-moving streams and lakes, receive excess nutrients that trigger excessive plant growth. environmental impact human and environment. Requirements for natural selection to act on a trait (guppy evolution exercise)

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Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii), the worldâs largest carnivorous marsupials, are facing extinction. Not from hunting, or habitat loss, but from within; a transmissible cancerous derivative of Schwann cells, responsible for devil facial tumour disease (DFTD). First seen in 1996, the disease has spread widely though the population, and is now estimated to be present in 80% of the population. With the grim prognosis of ~100% mortality in 12-18 months, animals that once went through multiple breeding cycles are now lucky to reproduce once before death, resulting in a 70% decline in their population over the past decade. The cancer is transmitted by biting (a common ritual used by these animals to establish and maintain social position), with cancer cells from one animal (the biter) being implanted in the wound inflicted on the other animal. Equally common in both sexes, the disease itself is more prevalent in animals higher on the social scale, presumably reflecting higher levels of social interaction (biting). The cancer is usually first evident as facial tumors, from which metastasis to cervical lymph nodes occurs, often followed by dissemination to other organ systems. Cause of death is by organ failure or by malnutrition in those with facial tumors large enough to prevent feeding. Based on what we have covered regarding the Major Histocompatibility Complex, you would expect the passage of a cancer from one individual to another* to be a rare event (to see just how rare, read the accompanying popular press piece from the New York Times). Here are some things that you already know: *Yes, some viruses can cause cancer (example: Hepatitis B virus and liver cancer), and you can transmit a virus from one individual to another; but that is not the same thing as passing the cancer itself. v Almost all nucleated cells express high levels of class I MHC proteins on their surface. v Class I MHC proteins collect peptides produced from endogenous proteins and display them at the cell surface. v Different Class I MHC proteins bind and display different peptides. v Developing cytotoxic T-cells that recognize self-antigens are eliminated. v Mature cytotoxic T-cells conduct surveillance by scanning the peptides displayed by class I MHC proteins. v Mature cytotoxic T-cells that recognize an antigen on a cell will kill that cell (recall that cytotoxic T cell activity is important in rejection of tissue transplants).

Before the questions:
v Tasmanian Devils are not immunosuppressed.
v Tasmanian Devil cytotoxic T-cells are not broken, they can kill cells.
So neither of those should be part of your answers.
This is an ongoing research topic with large gaps in our knowledge; we really donât fully understand how this works
and so there is no âcorrectâ answer. Your job is to provide a logical argument, with some research and details to
support your contention. Note that in questions 1 & 2 class I MHC should be part of your answer, but not in
question 3.

Questions:
1.) Acquiring DFTD is basically like receiving a transplant that is not rejected. How can that be? Suggest a possible
way this could occur. Be sure to explain why you think this would work, and then explain how you would test
that model to determine if it were correct. (10 point question).
2.) Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor (CTVT) is the other know transmissible cancer in mammals. Unlike
DFTD, CTVT does not usually result in death. Do a little research on this disease and summarize how it is
different from DFTD. Provide an explanation as to why one is lethal and the other is generally not. (10 point
question).
3.) Recently, researchers at Washington State University determined that some Tasmanian devils had developed
resistance to this cancer. By scanning partial genome sequences of resistant and susceptible animals (a
complete devil genome has yet to be assembled) they identified a set of genes where mutations appeared to
enhance resistance. Speculate as to the function of the proteins these genes encode, and explain why that
might provide for resistance (note: they were NOT MHC genes).

Mainly need guidance/ideas for #1's 1 and 3!

Create a science lesson plan that involves insects. Use the 5E model from thepresentations and readings. You may come up with an original lesson plan or modify anexisting lesson plan, as long as it is not already in the format of the 5E model. If you usean existing lesson plan, paraphrase appropriately and acknowledge the source.

Title

Your title should summarize the lesson. Be mindful of the grade level! Itâs okay to be clever with the title, but be sure your title makes sense.

Objectives

Your lesson plan should focus on two or three learning objectives. Your learning objectives should describe what you want the students to know or be able to do when they complete your lesson. Be sure to follow the guidelines in the presentation on writing effective learning objectives!

Advanced Preparation

Provide a detailed explanation of the science content being developed in the lesson. Here, you as a teacher should demonstrate your understanding of the science being taught in the lesson. Assume the reader does not have this background knowledge.

Additionally, a teacher may have to prepare materials before the start of your lesson. In this section, please describe what the teacher needs to do before students arrive. If there are handouts, they need to be referenced in this section.

Engage

What will you do to captivate student attention?

How will the activity help students identify their misconceptions?

How will you connect to studentsâ everyday lives?

What questions will you ask students?
(Provide sample answers you expect from students.)

Explore

How will you transition from the engagement to the exploration?

What common, cooperative experience will you provide for students?

How will you help students generate their own questions about the experience?

Will the students collect data? If so, what data will they collect?

What questions will you ask the students? (Provide sample answers.)

Explain

What guiding questions will you ask? (Provide sample answers.)

What ideas will you be trying to develop?

How might you act out or demonstrate the ideas youâre developing?

What opportunities will you provide for students to articulate their ideas and listen to each other?

What terminology will you introduce, and how will you clarify what students articulate?

Elaborate

What will students do during this phase?

What concepts will you be having them apply, in what kind of activity?

Will you ask students to relate previous experiences to current activities?

What guiding questions will you ask? (Provide sample answers.)

Evaluate

What formative assessments will you use, and when in the lesson will you use them?

What specifically will you be looking for in these?

What summative assessment will you use?

What specifically will you be looking for in this?

Acknowledgments

Cite any references used; APA format.

Side Bar

Main Idea

In one sentence, state the aim of your lesson.

Grade Level

State the grade level or range that your activity would be best for.

Subject

State the subject(s) covered by your lesson. Your lesson plan can address multiple subjects if appropriate, but at least one subject should be science.

Setting

State the most appropriate location for teaching your lesson plan.

Time Needed

State how long the lesson takes. Work through your lesson to estimate this.

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards

Find two standards that your lesson/experience plan meets. The Next Generation Sunshine State Standards can be found here http://www.floridastandards.org/Standards/FLStandardSearch.aspx
Refer to the Lesson Plan presentation for help selecting standards.

Materials Needed

List all the materials needed for your lesson.

Title

Main Idea

Grade Level

Subject

Setting

Time Needed

Standards

Materials Needed

Learning Objectives:

Advanced Preparation

Engage

Explore

Explain

Elaborate

Evaluate

Acknowledgements / References

Check the Course Announcements at the beginning of the week following the deadline for Part 1 to discover exactly what happened to the deer population on the Kaibab plateau. This information is essential for completion of Part 2.

The second part of your project is to take what you've learned about the Kaibab forest ecosystem and write an accurate description of the boom and bust of this deer population, using correct ecological language. Consider as many of the aspects of these events as you can. Be sure to consider the effects on the other species in the ecosystem as well.

Refer to your on-line materials and the appropriate sections of your textbook. Your discussion should include (but not be confined to) consideration of all of the following concepts: carrying capacity, predator/prey relationships, population cycling, resource partitioning, competitive exclusion, fundamental and realized niches, food chains, food webs and trophic pyramids.

Note that the purpose of this exercise is for you to demonstrate to me that you understand these important concepts of ecology by utilizing them accurately and appropriately in the description of the disaster in the Kaibab forest. Your essay must include both clear indications that you understand the meanings of these principles and clear indication that you understand how these principles can be used to describe what happened to the ecosystem on the Kaibab plateau.

information given of part one: On the north rim of the Grand Canyon, an area called the Kaibab plateau, there is a conifer forest called the Kaibab forest. The forest's trees include pine, fir and spruce. Shrubbery includes a variety of willows, raspberries, etc. A hundred years ago, this forest was a stable ecosystem, housing, among other species, a population of about four thousand mule deer.

These deer were hunted by local Native Americans, who used them for food and other materials. They were also hunted by predators like pumas, wolves and coyotes.

In 1906, the US made this region into a National Game Preserve. With the intent of protecting the deer, hunting was forbidden. Bounties were paid for killing the pumas, wolves and other large animals that preyed on the deer. By 1925, more than 6000 predators had been killed, virtually wiping out the ecosystem's large predators.

*Read the instructions* for Part 2, then consider this additional information about the Kaibab forest.
There are some hints in here to suggest the *minimum* range of the subjects you need to discuss to explain this; You will need to read the chapters and the course materials to understand the meanings of these concepts, and to be able to use them to explain the Kaibab disaster. There are other important concepts as well--so keep your eyes open as you read. It wouldn't hurt to go back and read the original description in Part 1, either. And you may find it necessary to do some quick browsing in areas of your book not directly related to ecology. (For instance, you might just want to do some looking into the nature and importance of the bark and twig ends on a tree.) Do not neglect the on-line essays which are provided for you in this Unit. What you should *not* do is Google the Kaibab, or look it up on a source like Wikipedia. This is not about what you can *discover* about the Kaibab forest.
Your grade will depend upon how completely you convince me you understand the concepts involved in this description. This is your test on ecology--your goal is to convince me that you understand the concepts and terminology of the subject, and can apply them to a real life situation.
Before we go on to the new information, there are a few things that came up as I was grading the Part 1 submissions which I think I should mention, just to keep you from straying in some incorrect directions.
First, remember that your concern is the fate of the Kaibab forest in the *immediate* sense--over tens of years, not thousands. There are no evolutionary issues here, at least in the short term (and that's your concern right now). So we won't be talking about adaptive radiation.
Also, keep your focus on the *Kaibab forest*, not on other ecosystems. Oh, and remember that the Kaibab is pretty isolated--emigration really isn't a reasonable alternative for the species living in this forest.
And finally, until we get to Part 3, the only human interaction we are considering is the initial decision to put bounties on those large predators, which led to their near-extinction in the area. You will be thinking a bit about human hunters trying to control the deer population toward the end, but the rest of the time you're just concerned with the natural processes going on in the ecosystem.
Okay, now on to the actual description of what happened in the Kaibab Forest as a result of killing almost all of the large predators. Remember, your task in Part 2 is going to be to describe and explain all of this using the concepts of ecology which you are learning in Unit 2 of the course.
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The primary, most immediate outcome of the removal of the predators from the ecosystem was that the deer population exploded, because the loss of the normal predator populations removed a primary source of population control. And the expanding deer population ate a *lot.* [Hint: explaining this requires discussion of population cycling, predator prey relationships and carrying capacities.]
As the deer population got larger and larger, their impact upon their favored food plants became extreme. They ate a much larger percentage of each year's plant populations, and they ate a larger portion of each individual plant. They also began to eat more from the plants which they didn't like so well--plants normally consumed by other herbivores in the ecosystem. In the winter, the starving deer ate about anything remotely resembling food, including twigs and bark from trees. As a result of the destruction of many of the twig ends of the trees, the spring tree growth was inhibited (why?). The stripping of the bark caused the death of some of the trees (why?). The extreme browsing on the herbaceous plants caused shifts in the plant population diversity, as the deer drove many of their favored plants into extinction within the ecosystem. [Hint: Explanation here will need to include discussion of resource partitioning, competitive exclusion, and realized vs. fundamental niches.]
All of this also impacted upon the rest of the animals in the ecosystem, since many of them depended upon the same kinds of food the deer ate, or depended upon the foods that the deer were eating because they could no longer get the food they favored. Then of course, the smaller predatory species (like foxes and owls) depended upon the health of those populations of small herbivores (like rabbits and mice). [Hint: sounds like food chains, food webs and trophic pyramids come into this part.]
After a couple of decades, the ecosystem was quite altered. The plant community was very different from what it had been before, and the deer herd, though not extinct, was composed of significantly smaller and weaker deer than the herd from the 1890s. (This was partially due to their straightened circumstances re. food, but also partially due to the absence of predators. Why would the removal of the natural predators cause this change in the general vigor of the deer in the herd (and why would the substitution of *human* hunting not exert the same positive influence)?)
Okay, the next phase of your assignment is to describe all the things going on in this ecosystem using the proper terminology that you should be learning from studying this unit of the course. Note that your use of terms like, for instance, "resource partitioning" needs to show that you understand not just what the concept means, but how it is reflected in this specific ecological disaster. Feel free to discuss this as much as you want to on your Discussion Board. Don't ignore the little questions tucked into the above description, and pay attention to those hints. Your response must demonstrate proper understanding of these concepts and how they are demonstrated by the disaster in the Kaibab forest.
This is the largest part of your exam project; your response should reflect the fact that this is a 50 point "essay" question. You are given a lot of organizational clues and hints about what issues you need to include in the information above. Make use of those things.

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