Fundamentals to Evolutionary Biology

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Decks in this class (19)

Lecture 2 - Hardy Weinberg Equation
What is population genetics 1,
What is the use of population gen...,
Allele 3
43  cards
Lecture 3 - Sources of vairiation
Mutation 1,
What mutations are heritable 2,
What leads to mutation 3
22  cards
Lecture 4 - Random genetic drift and NE
Genetic drift 1,
For a single locus with two allel...,
What are the changes in probabili...
23  cards
Lecture 5 - Migration
What does migration allow 1,
Inbreeding coefficient f 2,
Fixation index fst 3
14  cards
Lecture 7 - Phenotypic evolution
How have humans harnessed evoluti...,
Quantitative traits 2,
Quantitative genetics 3
30  cards
Lecture 8 - Biogeography
What is biogeography 1,
What is biogeography split into 2,
Ecological biogeography 3
37  cards
Lecture 9 - Phylogenetics
Classification 1,
Scala naturae 2,
What is the taxonomic order 3
25  cards
Lecture 10 - Phylogenetics Part 2
Monophyly 1,
Paraphyly 2,
Polyphyly 3
30  cards
Lecture 11 - Species
What is the debate of weather spe...,
What purposes does the species co...,
Morphological or typological spec...
37  cards
Lecture 12 - Speciation
Mechanical isolation 1,
Copulatory behavioral isolation 2,
Gametic isolation 3
31  cards
Lecture 13 - Speciation part 2
Why are post zygotic barriers avo...,
What is the concept of reinforcem...,
When is prezygotic isolation stro...
43  cards
Lecture 14 - Comparative methods part 1
What is a comparative method 1,
What are two key evolutionary mec...,
What was the comparative methods ...
21  cards
Lecture 15 - Comparative methods part 2
What do we know most about extinc...,
Lagerstatte 2,
Trace fossils 3
18  cards
Lecture 16 - Co-evolution
Coevolution 1,
How does coevolution differ from ...,
What are the 4 antagonistic inter...
20  cards
Lecture 17 and 18 - Macroevolution
Adaptation 1,
Snake jaw kinesis 2,
Post copulatory cannibalism in wi...
60  cards
Lecture 19 - Evolution of sex
What is sexual reproduction 1,
Anisogamy 2,
What percentage of eukaryotic org...
34  cards
Lecture 20 - Human Evolution 1
When was the start of the pleisto...,
When was the start of the holocene 2,
Hominids 3
56  cards
Lecture 21 - Genetics of human evolution
When and where were the first fos...,
How old are the oldest definite h...,
What is the out of africa hypothe...
35  cards
Lecture 22 - Human Migration
Why is mitochondrial dna used to ...,
What is the problem with studying...,
What is the most variable part of...
36  cards

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