Biol 1020 Final Exam Review

Biology 1020
Review Questions for Final Exam

1. who proposed the theory of natural selection ← Darwin and Wallace

2. what are the four characteristic features of natural selection ← Overpopulation ← Inherited variations within the species ← competition ← Survival of the fittest

3. how is fitness measured ← by survival and by the numbers who survive

4. what are some examples of selection in action ← Peppered Moth-industrial melanism ← Evolution of resistance to pesticides in insect populations ← Evolution of resistance to antibiotic in bacterial population

5. what are seven evidences of evolution ← Artificial Selection ← The fossil record ← Comparative Anatomy ← Comparative embryology ← Comparative biochemistry ← Continental drift ← Taxonomy

6. what are homologous structures, analogous structures, vestigial structures ← homologous – structures of organisms related to one another through common descent (wing of bat, arm of human, flipper of a whale) ← analogous – unrelated organisms with similar structures due to being exposed to similar environments (different cacti, sharks, dolphins) ← vestigial – structures that were once used in ancestral species, though overtime the organism would stop using them (whales leg bone)

7. what is taxonomy ← the identification and classification of species

8. who developed the binomial system, what are the two parts of a scientific name ← Linnaeus ← Genus ← Specific epithet

9. what is a population ← a group of individuals of the same species living in an environment.

10. what is the unit of evolution ← the population

11. what are the conditions necessary to maintain genetic equilibrium in a population ← mating is