Biology 1001A

Types of Fitness Cooperation and Conflict Fitness Benefit to Actor Fitness cost to Actor Fitness Benefits to Recipient Fitness Cost to Recipient Prisoner’s Dilemma Outcomes Hamilton's Rule Genetic Conflict: Individuals have overlapping but not identical genetic interests with relative

The Beginnings of Genetics: Mendel’s Garden Peas Later Modifications and Additions to Mendel’s Hypotheses Multiple Alleles, More Than Two Alleles of a Gene Are Present in a Population Incomplete Dominance, Products of Dominant Alleles Do Not Completely Compensate for those of Recessive Alleles Codominance, the Effects of Different Alleles Are Equally Detectable in Heterozygotes In Epistasis, Genes Interact, with the Activity of One Gene Influencing the Activity of Another Gene Polygenic I...

Mechanism of Genetic Recombination Genetic Recombination Occurs in Eukaryotes during Meiosis Random Segregation Random Fertilization Meiosis Occurs at Different Times in Different Organismal Life Cycles Diploid multicellular Haploid multicellular Meiosis Produces Four Genetically Different Daughter Cells

Repair of Damage in DNA Proofreading Depends on the Ability of DNA Polymerases to Reverse and Remove Mismatched Bases A Mismatch Repair Mechanism Corrects Replication Errors That Escape Proofreading Excision Repair Mechanisms Correct Various Kinds of DNA Damage

DNA Structure DNA Replication Repair of Damage in DNA Proofreading Depends on the Ability of DNA Polymerases to Reverse and Remove Mismatched Bases A Mismatch Repair Mechanism Corrects Replication Errors That Escape Proofreading Excision Repair Mechanisms Correct Various Kinds of DNA Damage Replication Errors and Other DNA Damage That Remain Unrepaired Give Rise to Mutations

The Cycle of Cell Growth and Division: An Overview Mitosis and the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Formation and Action of the Mitotic Spindle Cell Cycle Regulation

What Is a Virus? Characteristics if Viruses Viruses Infect Bacterial, Animal, and Plant Cells by Similar Pathways Treating and Preventing Viral Infections Viruses May Have Evolved from Fragments of Cellular DNA or RNA Viroids and Prions are Infective Agents Even Simpler in Structure than Viruses

Science and Falsifiability The Recognition of Change Natural Selection Evolutionary Biology since Darwin Evolution Is the Core Theory of Modern Biology but Is Plagued by Misconceptions