Biology evolution study notes, Study notes of Evolutionary biology

Study notes used for bio one B evolution sections focusing on the microevolution of species over time.

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Systematics
fsynoum to taxonomy
Ideatifing enaming Establising evolutionary relationships
btwn taxa ideveloping classifications
phylogenies determingevolutionary relationships
btwn species ehigher taxa
Cladogram sdiagrams that depict relative
degree of relatedness among chosen taxa
taxa are gropedon
shaved evolututionay
no
eg fur in dogs ecats
primitive state plesiomorphic É
leg scales Inode
reps
lastcommas
derived state apomorphic anasta
leg feathers
sister groups share anode eg Dovet
Hawk cat dog
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W

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proposed synapomorphies

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were due

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likely (^) only doe to (^) chance Terminology Symplesiomorphy

shared

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scales

in (^) reptiles not enough to^

formaclade^ as descendentswho

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character state that evolved^ more

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cladogram

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REMINDER

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very

similar Buttheactual

configuration

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plesiomorphic to each^ species

depends

on origin homo

logos

are plesio same^ origin

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origin

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year

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branch

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longest branch^

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no

of changes HIV's origins simighasmmunodetiancy

phylogeny

of HN^ e^ SN^ monkey HIV^ shows humans

virus is^ polyphyletic multiple^ origins

as (^) we got it MANY diet times^ from^ primates

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passing
Hiv to

patients a

phylogenetic

tree

showing the

multiple (^) patients and^ the^ dentits^ tho^

indicated

that (^) it was his (^) Hiv ans (^) the patients HN^ was^

most

closley

related similar

sequences

to

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the rate^ of^ DNA dittereances^ of^ species

hoping
universal rate^ but^ disproven

only

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branch

length

can be^ used to

estimate (^) divergance times rate of^

change

is (^) relatively constant in^ clades

for

neutrally evolving^

DNA sequence

neutral (^) substitution changes

in DNA

that are^ neutral^ w^

respect

to substitution

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produced neutral rate^ of^ evolution

non synonymous (^) changes DO change

amino acid

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divergent

times based on^ maleate data ten calibrated^ w^ fossil^ record^ to^ get

absolute

divergence times 0 SSU^ rRNA as a^ phylogenetic

e tool

Small Subunit^ ribosomal^ RNA part of (^) machinery that^ makes^ protiens all organisms have it recognisable in

species
revealed 3

great domains of^ life Bacteria (^) Archaea Eucarya