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Exam 1

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What is the evolutionary history of a species or group of related species   Phylogeny  
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The discipline of ________ classifies organisms and determines their evolutionary relationships   systematics  
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What is the ordered division and naming of organisms   Taxonomy  
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What are groups that share an immediate common ancestor   Sister taxa  
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What is a group of species that include an ancestral species and all its descendants   Clade  
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What is a species or group of species that is closely related to the ingroup, the various species being studied   outgroup  
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The tree that requires the fewest evolutionary events (appearances of shared derived characters) is the most likely. What is this called?   maximum parsimony  
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Given "rules" about how DNA changes over time, a tree can be found that reflects the most likely sequence of evolutionary events. What is this principle called?   maximum likelihood  
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What is the process in which a unicellular organism engulfs other cells   endosymbiosis  
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The process in which an unicellular organism who has already undergone endosymbiosis, does the same again down the line   secondary endosymbiosis  
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Fungi consists of ________, which are networks of branched hyphae adapted for absorption   mycelia  
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Most fungi have cell walls made of ________   chitin  
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Which fungi lack septa that allows cell-to-cell movement ?   Coenocytic fungi  
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Fungi use what for reproduction ?   pheromones  
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Which fungi form sheaths of hyphae over a root and also grow into the extracellular spaces of the root cortex   Ectomycorrhizal fungi  
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Which fungi extend hyphae through the cell walls of root cells and into tubes formed by invagination of the root cell membrane   Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi  
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______________ and _____________ are unique to animals   Nervous and muscle tissue  
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What is the rapid cell division that a zygote undergoes   cleavage  
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Forming a grastrula with different layers of embryonic tissues is called:   gastrulation  
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What was the earliest fossil appearance of many major groups of extant crittters caused by   Cambrian explosion  
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What is the germ layer that covers the embryo's surface   Ectoderm  
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What is the innermost germ layer that lines the developing digestive tube   Endoderm  
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What is the developing digestive tube called   archenteron  
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What type of animals have both ectoderm and endoderm tissue layers   diploblastic  
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What are cnidarians and comb jellies an example of   diploblastic animals  
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These have no body cavity surrounding the gut   Acoelomates  
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These have a body cavity that is not lined by peritoneum (thin membrane)   Pseudocoelomates  
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What is an example of a pseudocoelomate   nematodes  
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These have a body cavity lined by a peritoneum   Eucoelomates  
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These people use fossil, molecular, and genetic data to infer evolutionary relationships   Systematists  
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What is the taxonomic unit at any level of hierarchy   Taxon  
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These are hypotheses about evolutionary relationships   phylogenetic trees  
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What is similarity due to shared ancestry   Homology  
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What is similarity due to convergent evolution   Analogy  
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This assumes constant changes   ML  
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This allows for rapid changes and slow periods   MP  
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DNA that codes for rRNA changes relatively _______ and is useful for investigating branching points hundreds of millions of years ago   slowly  
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This is the least variable gene in all cells   rRNA  
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_________ evolves rapidly and can be used to explore recent evolutionary events   mtDNA  
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When did the HIV strain spread to humans   1930s  
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This has crossed over from chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys to humans at least eleven times, giving rise to several HIV lineages   SIV  
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What two SIVs trace back to an SIV that infected red-capped mangabeys and in greater spot-nosed monkeys   SIV-AGM & SIVMM  
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This strain passed into humans around 1940 and the other in 1945   HIV-2 (A and B)  
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The HIV virus originated where ?   Guinea-Bissau  
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Where did the zika virus originate from   Ziika Forest, Uganda  
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When did the zika virus have a narrow belt spread in Africa   1950s-2007  
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when did the zika virus have a westward spread   2007-2015  
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When did the outbreak in South America began that brought zika to the United States   2015-2016  
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What three-domain systems have recently been adopted   Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya  
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This causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis in humans (PAM)   Naegleria fowleri (Excavata)  
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This recently dropped kingdom includes mostly unicellular eukaryotes   Protists  
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These are clades that include the ancestral species and some of its descendants   Paraphyletic  
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They exhibit more structural & functional diversity than any other group of eukaryotes   Protists  
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What type of protist causes malaria   Plasmodium  
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A dinoflagellate that causes fish kills   Pfesteria shumwayae  
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This causes sudden oak death   Phytophthora ramorum  
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These are essential for the well-being of most terrestrial ecosystems and are nature's decomposers and recyclers   Fungi  
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What three lifestyles do fungi have ?   Decomposers, parasites, and mutualists  
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These produce haploid spores by mitosis   Molds  
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These reproduce asexually with or without spores   Yeasts  
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These have flagellated spores   Chytrids  
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These have resistant zygosporangium as sexual stage   Zygomycota (Zygomycetes)  
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These are formed with plants   Glomeromycota (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi)  
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These have sexual spores borne internally in sacs called asci and produce vast numbers of asexual spores   Ascomycota (Ascomycetes)  
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What are sexual spores called (ascomycetes)   ascospores  
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What are asexual spores called (ascomycetes)   conidia  
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These have elaborate fruiting body (basidiocarp) containing many basidia that produce sexual spores (basidiospores)   Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)  
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These resulted from a symbiotic relationship between fungus and an algae   Lichens  
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Provides carbon compounds   Algae  
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Provides nitrogen   Cyanobacteria  
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Provides growing environment   Fungi  
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What is the amphibian chytrid fungus called   Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd)  
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The most precipitous decline of North American wildlife is caused by this   white nose syndrome  
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What causes white nose syndrome   Pseudogymnoascus destructans  
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What are multicellular, heterotrophic eukaryotes with tissues that develop from embryonic layers   Animals  
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Cleavage leads to the formation of a what ?   blastula  
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The common ancestor of living animals may have lived between how many million years ago   675 and 875  
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Animals moved on land by:   460 mya  
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Vertebrates moved on land by:   360 mya  
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This allows for much greater body flexibility and movement, space for visceral organs, greater body size because of more surface area for gas exchange, and serve as a hydrostatic skeleton in some worms   coelom function  
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This is a clade of animals with true tissues   Eumetazoa  
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These are basal animals with no tissue   Sponges  
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Most animal phyla belong to the clade Bilateria, and are called ________   Bilaterians  
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There are 52,000 species of vertebrates and half of them are ______   fish  
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Which clade does Chordates belong to?   Deuterostomes  
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What type of deuterostomes are urochordates and cephalochordates   invertebrate deuterostomes  
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Which clade of animals have a cranium   Craniata  
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What aquatic animal is grouped in the Craniata clade   Hagfish  
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What do hagfish lack ?   vertebrae  
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What is the bony or cartilage based brain case called   Cranium  
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Which clade consists of these four characteristics: notochord, dorsal, hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits or clefts, and muscular, post-anal tail   Chordata  
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What does the notochord in chordata eventually become   vertebrae  
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What does the dorsal, hollow nerve cord in chordata eventually become   spinal cord and brain  
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What happens to the muscular, post-anal tail in chordata   stays the same  
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What does the pharyngeal slits or clefts in chordata become   gills or lungs  
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What animal that inhabits sedimentary areas is grouped in the Cephalochordata clade   lancelets (not a vertebrate)  
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What subgroup do tunicates and sea squirts belong to   Urochordata  
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This is removed hindrances of exoskeleton in terms of growth and are structured for easy attachment of muscles   Endoskeleton  
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Segmented body muscles called ________ - changed from folded "V" to folded "W" for more maneuverability   myomeres  
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During the Cambrian period, a lineage of craniates (true head) evolved into _______   vertebrates  
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What is another word for the development of the jaw   gnathostomes  
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Which clade includes the bony fish and tetrapods   Osteichthyes  
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When did birds develop feathers   150 mya  
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When did mammals develop fur   200 mya  
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Vertebrates have paired kidneys with ducts to do what   drain waste to exterior  
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Vertebrates have a presence of outer and inner epidermis which are modified to produce what ?   hair, scales, feathers, glands, horn, etc.  
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Birds, lampreys, and hagfish all lack what   paired gonads  
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Vertebrates replaced the notochord with what ?   vertebral column  
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the development of the jaw might have evolved from the skeletal supports of the what ?   pharyngeal slits  
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What animals lack jaws   jawless hagfish and lampreys  
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Sharks, rays, skates, and ratfish all lack what ?   hard skeleton  
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Bony fish, lungfish, and coelocanths all lack what ?   true limbs  
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Amphibians (frogs, salamanders, and caecilians) lack what ?   amniotic egg and fully functional lungs  
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Which animals (invertebrates or vertebrates) have bony cartilaginous endoskeletons   vertebrates  
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Muscular, perforated pharynx ; site of _____ in fishes   gills  
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The general body plan of _________ consists of the head, trunk, 2 pairs of appendages, and a post anal tail   vertebrates  
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