BIO
120 EXAM #3 REVIEW SHEET
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Chapter 12: PROCESSES OF EVOLUTION
1. Understand the roles these people played in the development of
Darwinian evolution:
a)
Aristotle, b) Jean
Lamarck, c) Archbishop James
Usser, d) Charles Darwin.
2. Understand the components of Natural Selection and what
"fitness" means in biology.
Chapter 13: EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS, RATES, AND TRENDS
1. Understand how these provide supporting evidence for evolution:
a)
fossils, b) homologous
structures, c) vestigial
organs, d) comparative
embryology, e) molecular biology (DNA).
2. Understand the basic definitions of "species" and
"microevolution".
3. Understand and give examples of the mechanisms that can lead to a
new species.
4. Explain how these geographic isolations can lead to a new
species: a) rivers, b) glaciers &
deserts, c) plate tectonics / continental drift.
Chapter 14: EARLY LIFE
1. Be able to explain the basics of Miller and Urey's experiment to
duplicate the possible origin of biological molecules and what they found.
2. Be able to fully describe and explain the following aspects of
Bacteria biology:
a) relative
size, b) internal structures,
c) reproduction, d)
roles in the environment
3. Be able to fully describe and explain the following aspects of
Virus biology:
a) relative
size, b) internal structures: (i) protein envelop, (ii) capsid, (iii) genetic material,
c)
virus life cycle: (i) Lytic
Stage, (ii) Lysogenic Stage
4. Be able to compare and
contrast each of the following types of viruses and give example of each:
a) DNA viruses,
b) RNA viruses, c) retroviruses,
5. Understand and describe the
following aspects of HIV:
a) what it
is, b) how it works, c) how a
person dies from it.
6. Understand and describe the
following aspects fighting infections:
a) how
antibacterial soaps work, b) how drug resistant
diseases evolve.
Chapter 18 -or- 28: POPULATION ECOLOGY
1. Understand and apply what each of these concepts are and how they
relate to each other:
a)
population, b) exponential growth,
c) sigmoidal –or- logistic growth, d) carrying
capacity.
2. Give examples of the following and explain how these relate to
carrying capacity
a)
density-dependant population limiting
factors b) density-dependant population limiting
factors.
3. Be able to draw and interpret age-distribution graphs for:
a) increasing
populations, b) decreasing populations, c)
stable populations.
4. Know the current human population level and its doubling
time. Be able to explain how this will effect the availability of
resources (food, water, living space, jobs) for future generations.
Chapter 19 -or- 29:
COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND BIODIVERSITY
1. Understand each of the following concepts and how they relate to each
other:
a)
biosphere, b) ecosystem, c)
biotic factors, d) abiotic
factors, e) community, f)
ecology.
2. Know the 4 attributes of habitat.
3. Comprehend and give examples for these types of heterotroph
foraging associations:
a)
predation, b)
symbiosis, c) parasitism,
d) comensulism, e) mutualism.
4. Understand and be able to apply the concepts of: a)
niche, b) competitive exclusion principle.
5. Understand and be able to apply the
concepts of:
a)
ecological succession, b) primary and secondary
succession.
Chapters 20 & 21 -or- 30 & 31:
ECOSYSTEMS & BIOSPHERE
1. Understand and apply the concepts of trophic levels to these:
a)
autotrophs, b)
heterotroph, c) herbivore, d)
carnivore, e) omnivore, f)
producers and consumers.
2. Comprehend, apply, and associate to each other, the following:
a)
energy pyramid, b) energy transfer between trophic
levels, c) food pyramid d)
biomagnification e) food web.
3. Understand the causes of and impacts from the following:
a)
water pollution, b) acid rain,
c) greenhouse effect/global warming , d) ozone hole &
CFCs, e) biomagnification, f) solid
waste, g) rain forest
destruction, h) species
extinction.