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Exam of 14 pages for the course Evolution at Evolution (Evolution Notes)

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TopicsThat will be covered
1 Phylogenies 1 Molecular clocks
2 convergence 2 Molecular ero
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2 Parsimony i BiogeographyEvo
13 Homoplasy
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13 2 Historyon life 3Earth
3Macroevolution 1species speciation
2 Definitions
3 ReproductiveIsolation
4 Intrinsic t extrinsic


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6 Genetic incompat
7 Hybridization
8 Allopathy Sympathy


LectureOne Summary
why is evolution important
checkslides

LectureTwo Summary

Phylogeny A usualrepresentation of the evolutionary historyof populations gene
or species
used to represent relationships at different scales ranging
from populations to phyla
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pull it down to root it

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, Cladograms NOtime MRCA ye's oldest
Phylograms amount of evolution Has occurred No time
Chronograms YES TIME
Polytomy Monophyletic paraphyletic




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Apomorphy Derived character state
Plesiomorphy Ancestral character state
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Homoplasy character state that evolved 2T times convergence
Autapomorphy Ingle derived characterstate
HOMOLOGY Characters or characterStates derived by common ancestor

III Homology 1 Transitions
earbone structure now derived from
mandible of the early synapsids

Homoplasy example convergence evolution

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,LectureThree
Summary Homology by Gene duplication




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orthologous Sep by speciation events ONLY
paralogous at least one duplicationevent
there are millions of gene duplications Natural selection gets rid of badones

Maximum parsimony The best estimate of the true phylogeny
postulate the FEWEST evolutionary changes
i minimize the of repeated changes homoplasies

consensus trees problems w parsimonytrees
1 Truetree may notbe
the parismoniestone
2 No Naturalwayto deal w it
characters w diff
rates of evolution
diff Images having
diff rates of change
3 Produces a cladogram
but we often don't
know branch lengths

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Lecture 4 Suffenammolecular
Clock Method
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Placing Fossils on Phylogenies
Fossils are used as min age
calibration points

Importance of Fossils
1 rate of phenotypic changes in
particular lineages
2 Changes in biological diversity


check lecture slides for other
data obtaining methods




Macroevolution

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standing Diversity

,Lecture 5 Summary
Speciation outline

species concept definitions
1 Biological Species Concept Bsc species are groups of actually
or potentially interbreeding populations in nature reproductive
isolated from other such groups

1a Variation wlin Species they have to be able to have
lb geographic variation sexy create offspring
Ic sibling species
PROBLEMS
1 can't deal w fossils
2 allopatric populations
3 What level of interbreeding is permissible
asexual does not count

2 Phylogenetic species concept PSC smallest possible group
from
descending a common ancestor bp recognizable by
unique derived traits
BOTH evolution independent lineages

Speciation
1 Speciation modes
2 types of reproductive isolating barriers
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TYPES OF ISOLATING BARRIERS
1 Geographic extrinsic properties of landscape that
prevent gene flow
2 Reproductive organisms that prevent interbreeding
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BOTH WORK TOGETHER TO HELP SPECIATION

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Allopatric not same area
parapatric no barrier environmental effects
sympatric same area
allopatric is the most common
vicariance geographical separation
parapatric ex of a population
barrier by physical
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