BIO 124 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Evolution - ANSWER Descent with modification, a pattern and a
process
Carolus Linnaeus - ANSWER Founder of taxonomy
Georges Cuvier - ANSWER Father of palaeontology, each boundary
b/n strata represents an extinction event
Mary Anning - ANSWER Jurassic marine fossils
Hutton and Lyell - ANSWER Proposed earth is older than 6000 years
Lamarck - ANSWER Evolution through use and disuse of body parts
(wrong)
Uniformitarianism - ANSWER Deep time and present is key to past
Natural selection - ANSWER Process by which individuals with
favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce
Alfred Russell Wallace - ANSWER Developed natural selection theory
similar to Darwin's
Darwin's evolution pattern - ANSWER Unity of life, diversity, adaptation
Artificial selection - ANSWER Selecting and breeding individuals with
desired traits
Thomas Malthus - ANSWER Human population could increase faster
than food supplies/resources
4 types of data that document pattern of evolution - ANSWER Direct
observations,
Homology,
, Fossil record,
Biogeography
Convergent evolution - ANSWER Evolution of similar, or analogous,
features in distantly related groups
Endemic species - ANSWER Species not found anywhere else in the
world
Phylogenetic trees - ANSWER Visual representation of ancestral
relationships
First bacterium produced - ANSWER H influenzae- 1995
Genomics - ANSWER The study of whole sets of genes and their
interactions
Bioinformatics - ANSWER Application of computational methods to the
storage and analysis of biological data
Human Genome Project - ANSWER 1990, to determine sequence of
nucleotide base pairs in human genome
Shotgun approach - ANSWER J Craig Venter
Cut, clone, sequence, order
Sequencing by synthesis - ANSWER Faster, cheaper, no cloning
needed
Metagenomics - ANSWER Dna from a group of species is collected
and sequenced and then sorted out by computer
ENCODE - ANSWER Encyclopedia of DNA Elements
Proteomics - ANSWER Study of full protein sets encoded by genomes
Systems biology - ANSWER Aims to model the dynamic behavior of
whole biological systems based on interaction of system's parts
Evolution - ANSWER Descent with modification, a pattern and a
process
Carolus Linnaeus - ANSWER Founder of taxonomy
Georges Cuvier - ANSWER Father of palaeontology, each boundary
b/n strata represents an extinction event
Mary Anning - ANSWER Jurassic marine fossils
Hutton and Lyell - ANSWER Proposed earth is older than 6000 years
Lamarck - ANSWER Evolution through use and disuse of body parts
(wrong)
Uniformitarianism - ANSWER Deep time and present is key to past
Natural selection - ANSWER Process by which individuals with
favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce
Alfred Russell Wallace - ANSWER Developed natural selection theory
similar to Darwin's
Darwin's evolution pattern - ANSWER Unity of life, diversity, adaptation
Artificial selection - ANSWER Selecting and breeding individuals with
desired traits
Thomas Malthus - ANSWER Human population could increase faster
than food supplies/resources
4 types of data that document pattern of evolution - ANSWER Direct
observations,
Homology,
, Fossil record,
Biogeography
Convergent evolution - ANSWER Evolution of similar, or analogous,
features in distantly related groups
Endemic species - ANSWER Species not found anywhere else in the
world
Phylogenetic trees - ANSWER Visual representation of ancestral
relationships
First bacterium produced - ANSWER H influenzae- 1995
Genomics - ANSWER The study of whole sets of genes and their
interactions
Bioinformatics - ANSWER Application of computational methods to the
storage and analysis of biological data
Human Genome Project - ANSWER 1990, to determine sequence of
nucleotide base pairs in human genome
Shotgun approach - ANSWER J Craig Venter
Cut, clone, sequence, order
Sequencing by synthesis - ANSWER Faster, cheaper, no cloning
needed
Metagenomics - ANSWER Dna from a group of species is collected
and sequenced and then sorted out by computer
ENCODE - ANSWER Encyclopedia of DNA Elements
Proteomics - ANSWER Study of full protein sets encoded by genomes
Systems biology - ANSWER Aims to model the dynamic behavior of
whole biological systems based on interaction of system's parts
