Study Guide for Chapter 14 & 15 Test

Define and give an example:

Reproductive barriers

Temporal isolation

Habitat isolation

Behavioral isolation

Mechanical isolation

Gametic isolation

Hybrid inviability

Hybrid sterility

Hybrid breakdown

Adaptive radiation

Biological species concept

Allopatric speciation

Sympatric speciation

Gradualist model

Punctuated equilibrium model

Homologus structures (and what does having similar structures mean in terms of relatedness)

Analogus structures

Convergent evolution

Systematics (what does this attempt to do)

Know:

The 3 Domains and 5 Kingdoms know this Classification system (the order from general to specific)

What are the Galapagos finches an example of? How did they evolve? Where did the common ancestor first appear?

What was Stanley Miller’s equipment and what did it prove

What is a molecular clock? What did molecular clocks show about HIV?

What does mass extinction do for a speciation? About how long will it take for species diversity to recover?

In the Earth’s history, when did humans show up?

How many times has the Earth’s land masses joined into a single content and split back apart?

What is radiometric dating? How long is carbon 14 half-life? How old are fossils that use carbon 14 for dating?

Why was it good that oxygen was not present in earth’s early atmosphere?

What and when were the earliest fossils? When was the earliest eukaryotic fossils? Multicellular? Plant, fungi and animals?

What is parsimony?

What is clade and monophyletic taxon?

Shared ancestral characteristics and shared derived characteristics

What caused the mass extinction during the Cretaceous period?

What is an ingroup and outgroup in a phylogentic analysis?

How many mass extinctions has there been and how many species at each became extinct?

What is micro and macroevolution?

What did the Grants discovery about the Darwin’s finches?

Polyploid – how do plants get like this?

What is the average time for speciation events?

There will also be a Hardy-Weinberg problem or two. Yes, you will see these until everyone gets them right!