EVOLUTION -- Biology 4250
Faculty Index Page
James K Adams, jadams@daltonstate.edu
Review Sheets:
Test 1
Constructing phylogenies
Test 2
Test 3
Test 4
4.1 -- Chapter 16 and
section 17.1
4.2 -- rest of Chapter 17
and chapter 18
Hardy-Weinberg Problems
Hardy-Weinberg Answers
Exam dates/due dates for assignments
Tests on file in the library -- Click on the appropriate ones for 4250
Projectable images:
DNA:
Codon Table
DNA Structure
and Replication
Transcription and Translation
Sexual Selection
Brentha and Jumping spiders:
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000045
Coevolution: Orchids and orchid bees
DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE: This course
introduces you to the basic fundamentals of the
concept of evolution. You will learn about the overwhelming evidence (both past
and current) for
evolution, as well as the method by which evolution proceeds – mutation,
followed by natural selection.
We will investigate the major mechanisms by which natural selection results in
change, and how in turn
this results in organismal adaptations. We will then, in turn discuss how
different adaptations in different
populations may result in new species – speciation – and how this explains the
history of life on earth.
If time, we will end with a brief look at current research, particularly at the
molecular level, as it applies
to evolution.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
1. Define and use the concept of evolution in discussing relationships of
organisms.
2. Describe the basic premises and process of natural selection, indicating why
it is that it virtually
must be true that organisms change
through time.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the main processes involved in evolution:
mutation,
selection (including sexual, kin, etc.), migration, drift
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the major possible mechanisms involved in
speciation.
5. Describe why all organisms are related, and indicate what it means from an
evolutionary
perspective to say organisms are
closely related.
6. Understand how to construct phylogenies (i.e., evolutionary trees of
relationships).
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