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Properties of Life   Order and structure, energy processes, reproduction, growth and development, response to environment, homeostasis, evolution  
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Adaptation   A feature common in a population because it is advantageous, a process of natural selection  
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Natural Selection   Process by which organisms with favourable traits are more likely to survive to reproduce.  
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Evolution   Descent with modification from small scale (change in gene frequency between 2 generations) to large scale (descent of different species from common ancestor)*speciation  
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Tree of Life    
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  Way of organizing relationships between species, based off a universal common ancestor and branching off from there.  
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Homology   Similarities in traits due to a common ancestor, don't need to have the same function, but has to have a similar structure  
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Analogy   Similarities in traits due to environment, may have the same function, but doesn't have the same structure  
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Old approach to phylogeny   Looking at the morphology (bone structure)  
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New approach to phylogeny   Look at DNA and genetic similarities  
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Outgroup   An organism that does not belong to the group whose evolutionary relationships are being investigated  
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Maximum Parsimony   The rule which says the tree with the least amount of assumptions or changes is most likely the most correct one  
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Apomorphy   A character trait that evolved from a pre-existing characteristic  
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Taxonomy   The science of naming and classifying organisms based on similarities.  
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Taxonomic Structure   Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species  
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Systematics   Organization of organisms based on evolutionary relationships. Approaches: Phenetics (similar traits), Cladistics (common ancestor), Synthetic (combination of both)  
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Phenetics   Based on overall character similarities, impartial, but can lead to more broken-up trees. Usually faster.  
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Cladistics   Based on evolutionary relationships. All species that share a common ancestor are part of a group.  
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Monophyletic group   A taxon in which all species share a common ancestor  
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Polyphyletic group   Derivation from 2 or more ancestral sources  
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Paraphyletic group   A taxon in which all share a common ancestor but not all species are used  
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Synthetics   Based on evolutionary similarities and genetic differences. Can be subjective because analogous traits are discarded.  
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Eukaryotes   Most are simgle-celled and called Protists. Has organelles in cytoplasm. DNA and cytoplasm are separated by nucleus.  
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Protists   Has a flexible cell surface, dynamic flow of membrane (endo/exocytosis), differentiated cell surface (microtubules, microfilaments, flagella)  
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Primary Endosymbiosis   The theory that Eukaryotes evolved from the union between a cyanobacteria and an archea. The cyanobacteria became mitochondria.  
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Protist Locomoty    
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Unikonta   Amoebozoa, Plasmodial Slime Mold, Opisthokonta  
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Excavata   Euglenozoanes, Diplomonads/Parabasalids, Kinetoplastidia  
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Archaeplastida   Red Algae, Glaucophytes, Green Algae  
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Chromalveolates   Alveolata (ciliates, dinoflagellates, apicomplexans), Stramenopiles (diatoms, golden algae, brown algae, oomycetes)  
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Rhizaria   Radiolarians, Foraminifera  
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Amoebozoa   Free-living. Move through pseudopodea and eat through phagocytosis  
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Opisthokonta   Ancestors of animals and fungi. Have 1 flagellum with microvilli. Non-motile  
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Euglenozoans   Have a flagella with a crystalline rod inside it  
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