Biogeography Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

WGU C255 Intro to Geography Questions and Answers Already Passed Geography The study of the interaction of all physical and human phenomena at individual places and of how interactions among places form patterns and organize larger spaces physical geography Studies the characteristics of the physical environment. When geography concentrates on topics such as climate, soil, and vegetation, it is a natural science human geography Studies human groups and their activities, such as language, indus...

SFA BIO 133 Bennett Exam 2 Questions & Answers 2024 artificial selection - ANSWER-only individuals with preferred traits allowed to breed evolution of pathogens - ANSWER-over time, bacteria become resistant to antibiotis over time, pest become ___________ to pesticides - ANSWER-resistant comparative anatomy - ANSWER-the study of similarities and differences among structures of living species vestigial features - ANSWER-traits that were helpful to an ancestor but are not useful t...

SFA BIO 133 Bennett Exam 2 Questions & Answers 2024 artificial selection - ANSWER-only individuals with preferred traits allowed to breed evolution of pathogens - ANSWER-over time, bacteria become resistant to antibiotis over time, pest become ___________ to pesticides - ANSWER-resistant comparative anatomy - ANSWER-the study of similarities and differences among structures of living species vestigial features - ANSWER-traits that were helpful to an ancestor but are not useful t...

Biogeography Analogous structures - Structures that look the same, but not because they shared a common ancestor homologous structures - Structures that look the same because they did share a common ancestor James Hutton - Geologist that believed in deep time (meaning the earth is super old). Charles Lyell - Believed earth of 4.6 billion years old Got idea from James Hutton Carl Linnaeus - Created binomial nomenclature Alfred Wallace - English contemporary to Darwin Published his resea...

Bio 117 Exam 1 | Questions & 100% Correct Answers (Verified) | Latest Update | Grade A+ Evolution Correct Answer: A change in a population overtime *change = usually a slight modification of traits Vestigial Trait Correct Answer: A trait or characteristic that does not function well or at all How can vestigial traits be used to show change in organisms over time? Correct Answer: They are a trait present in ancestors but no longer useful in living organism. Examples: tail bones in hu...

Understand Physical Geography and its major sub-disciplines. - Answer-Physical geography is the study of the earth's environment. It is broken into areas of study, some of which are: Biogeography - Study of plants and animals and how they survive/live and where they survive/live Climatology - Study of weather patterns around the earth. Hydrology - Study of water and how it behaves and how it moves on earth. geomorphology - Study of earth's land and how it is formed Understan...

ENS222 - TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY 2023 What is Phylogeny? - ANS-The ancestral relationships of organisms. the discipline of phylogenetics is concerned with identifying evolutionary lineages (clades). this is done by identifying shared derived phenotypic and/or genetic characteristics. What are "Derived characteristics"? - ANS-Characteristics that have evolved (i.e are different from the ancestral condition). Phyolgenetics is also known as.. - ANS-Cladistics. Def...

Adaptation CORRECT ANSWER Inherited characteristic of an organism that enhances its survival and reproduction in specific environments Natural selection CORRECT ANSWER A process in which organisms with certain inherited characteristics are more likely to survive and reproduce than are organisms with other characteristics. Artificial selection CORRECT ANSWER The selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals to encourage the occurrence of desirable traits Observations of change, f...

Biogeography - ANSWER Study of variation in species composition and diversity across geographic locations regional species pool - ANSWER all the species contained within a region (gamma diversity) gamma diversity - ANSWER total species diversity in a landscape alpha diversity - ANSWER Species physiology and interactions with other species are important factors in the resulting species diversity beta diversity - ANSWER change in species, or turnover, from one community type to another...

BIO 152 EXAM 2 question with complete solution 2023what are the three main ideas of evolution? - correct answer common ancestry, populations evolve, natural selection common ancestry - correct answer a group of organisms that share a common ancestor what did darwin observe that supported common ancestry? - correct answer similar species tend to be found geographically close to each other Biogeography - correct answer Geographic distribution of species. Is Biogeography evidence of com...