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Final Review

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At its most basic, this unifying concept has been describe as "descent with Modification"

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Evolution

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Founded the binomial classification system for living organisms.

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Carolus Linnaeus

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The smallest unit of living things that can evolve.

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Population

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This group, which includes the majority of unicellular eukaryote lineages, is sometimes called the "junk drawer" of modern phylogeny.

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Protist

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The dominant generation of a seed plant's life cycle (gymnosperm or angiosperm)

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Sporophyte

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Because fungi are unable to make their own food, they secrete enzymes to absorb it, which is a form of this nutritional mode.

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Heterotrophy

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Two specialized types of cells/tissues that are only present in animals, and underlie many of their adaptions.

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Muscle & Nerve

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Both gram positive and gram negative bacterial cells have this type of cell wall, just in differing amounts.

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Peptidoglycan

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This protective layer keeps spores from drying out, and was a key adaption for plants moving to land.

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Sporopollenin

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Fungi share the use of this structural material with their animal neighbors, the arthropods.

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Chitin

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Most animal phyla show this type of body symmetry, as well as three germ layers

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Bilateral

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This theory describes how eukaryotic cells originate, by engulfing small prokaryotes.

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Endosymbiosis

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The presence of two types of spores, megaspores and microspores in seed plants.

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Heterspory

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What is the name of the eukaryotic supergroup that includes the fungi and the animals?

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Unikonta

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This group of brainy mollusks are predatory, and have a closed circulatory system, unlike their clammy cousins.

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Cephlopod

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Major contribution to biology published by Charles Darwin.

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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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In what year was Charles Darwin's work published?

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1859

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These pioneering photosynthesizers count the green and red algal groups as their closet relatives.

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Land Plants

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What is the name of the protist supergroup containing land plants, red, and green algae?

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Archaeplastida

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Localized regions of cell division at the tips of roots and shoots, these are one of the traits that separate plants from their algal relatives

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Apical Meristems

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Name the other three traits that distinguish plants from algae, besides apical meristems.

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Alternation of Generation
Sporangia
Gametangia

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These thin multicellular filaments make up the bulk of fungal growth.

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Hyphae

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What are a network of hyphae called?

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Mycelium

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Not only are these arthropods the most species rich group of any life form, they usually undergo some find of metamorphosis in their lifetime.

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Insects

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What is an insect's molting process called?

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Ecdysis

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The gene pool of a population that is not evolving is said to fit this principle.

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Hardy Weinburg Equilibrium

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Name five characteristics of a population not evolving.

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No Mutation
No Natural Selection
Random Mating
Large Population
No Gene Flow

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This group of small, single celled organisms without organelles don't appear to fit the "biological species concept", because they lack lack sexual reproduction.

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Prokaryotes

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The female reproductive element of an angiosperm flower, it produces megaspores and, therefore female gametophytes. The ovary is in its base.

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Carpel

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The process of haploid nuclei fusing and producing diploid cells/

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Karyogamy

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The fusion of cytoplasm.

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Plasmogamy

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Lancelets, tunicates, and hagfishes represent three groups of chordates that are pre- this major grouping of the animal kingdom.

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Vertebrates

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Most of the vertebrates are gnathosomes, which means they have what feature?

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Jaws

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What is the proximate age of Earth?

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4.6 Billion Years

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These two categories represent the two parts of each organism's scientific name?

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Genus & Species

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The maintenance of steady state in an animal, despite internal and external changes.

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Homeostasis

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Examples in a plant include stems, leaves, roots, and flowers in angiosperms.

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Organs

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These major zones of life on earth are characterized by physical environment and vegetation type.

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Biome

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Fossils can be aged using the unstable decay of isotopes in this process.

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Radiometric Dating

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These three domains represent all of life on earth.

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Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya

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These are the four stages of food processing that take place in an animal.

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Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, & Elimination

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This type of cell is your "average plant cell", and typically will photosynthesize or store materials.

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Parenchyma

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In this top layer of an aquatic biome, organisms can produce their own food from sunlight.

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Photic Zone

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Both the Cambrian Explosion and the colonization of land happened around this same relative time period in the earth's history.

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500 Million Years Ago

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The evolutionary history of a species, or group of species, often represented in a branched diagram.

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Phylogeny

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The daily fluctuations in metabolism and behavior in an animal, which are attuned to the cycles of light and dark in the environment.

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Circadian Rhythm

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The root apical meristem is protected by this structure, as it pushes down through the ground.

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Root Cap

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This change in a human population occurs as a result of improved sanitation, education, and health care, as the population moves from high birth and death rates and short lifespans, to low birth and death rates and long lifespans.

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Demographic Transistion

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The geological phenomenon greatly influenced the physical environment, climate patterns, and the distribution of species on the exposed parts of the earth's plates.

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Continental Drift

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What type of speciation does continental drift represent?

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Allopatric

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Groups of organisms that share an immediate common ancestor/branch point, and are each other's closest relatives.

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Sister Taxa

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Mammmals have how many circuits in their circulation.

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2

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What are the names of the two circuits mammals have?

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Pulmonary & Systemic

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This phenomenon, consisting of solute concentration and physical pressure, is responsible for the direction of water movement in a plant.

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Water Potential

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Exponential population growth is represented by this letter in our population growth equation.

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R

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The exponential curve is shaped like what letter?

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J

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This mass extinction ended the era of the dinosaurs.

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Cretaceous Extinction

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What is the prevailing theory for the cause of dinosaur extinction?

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Asteroid Collision

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This monophyletic grouping includes an ancestral species and all of its descendants in a tree shaped diagram.

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Clade

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The name of the structures within the lungs where gas exchange occurs.

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Alveoli

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The substance that moves from sources to sinks in plant vascular tissue.

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Sugar

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This type of interaction occurs when two species live in direct and close contact or association with each other. These interactions can be harmful, helpful, or neutral.

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Symbiosis