BIOLOGY 10 - Exam 4 Study Guide
Chapter 13
- What 2 books influenced Darwin the most?
- What is "uniformitarianism"?
- What was the name of Darwin's ship?
- What did Darwin observe on St. Jago (Santiago) - the first stop?
- What did Darwin observe in the Brazilian Rainforest?
- What did Darwin observe in the mountains of Argentina and Chile?
- What did Darwin observe on the Galapagos islands?
- How do volcanic islands "evolve" into atolls?
- What are the most controversial of Darwin's theories of evolution?
- Differentiate microevolution and macroevolution.
- What is Neodarwinism (modern synthesis)?
- Define the following: gene pool - gene flow - genetic drift
- List 3 types of natural selection.
- What does natural selection change in a population?
- What other 2 random mechanisms can cause microevolution?
- What is required for speciation to occur?
- How do new alleles form in a population?
- Pesticide and antibiotic resistance is the result of ____________.
- Why is sickle cell anemia so common in West Africa?
Chapter 14
- What is a species? How do you test this?
- What are prezygotic barriers to hybridization?
- What are postzygotic barriers to hybridization?
- What is allopatric speciation?
- Why is a "ring species" significant?
- What is a polyploid species?
- Why are "mules" infertile?
- What is a homologous structure?
- What major changes occurred in horse evolution over the past 50 million
years?
- What is a vestigial structure?
- What is convergent evolution?
- How does punctuated equilibrium differ from gradual species change?
- What is an exaptation?
Chapter 18
- Compare biotic and abiotic effects.
- What is density dependence vs. density independence?
- What does unregulated population growth look like?
- How does carrying capacity effect population growth?
- What factors lead to the following distributions:
- clumped regular
random
- Describe 3 patterns of survivorship strategies. Recognize and
example of each.
- Which survivorship pattern do humans follow?
- Why are human populations increasing so rapidly?
- How do predator and prey populations interact?
- Compare r-selected and K-selected life history strategies.
Chapter 19
- What do primary producers do?
- Why do these organisms need nitrogen?
- What form of nitrogen do most primary producers need?
- Why are nitrogen-fixers important in some ecosystems?
- Why do primary producers need phosphorus?
- What do primary consumers do?
- What is the efficiency of energy transfer to primary consumers?
- Where does the rest of the energy go?
- What do secondary consumers do?
- What is the efficiency of energy transfer to secondary consumers?
- Why are most food chains only 2-4 steps long?
- How does species diversity relate to disturbance frequency?
- Compare intraspecific competition to interspecific competition.
- When is competition most intense?
- Who benefits from competition?
- What is a Keystone species?
- What is an ecological niche?
- What are some examples of plant protection from herbivores?
- What is a "Batesian Mimic"?
- What is a "Mullerian Mimic"?
- What enzyme is responsible for converting CO2 to sugars?
- What is amenalism? What is mutualism?
- Bring scantron for 882-E available at the bookstore, science learning
center, or library.
- Several sharpened #2 pencils (or a mechanical pencil).