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ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, BIO20C

Sinervo and Potts

FINAL EXAM ESSAY QUESTIONS

TA Review Questions

Office Hours

General Course Information

Midterm Answer Key

Grade Distribution


Course Syllabus and Lecture Notes

Lecture(r)

Day/Date

Topics

 Study Guides

1 (dcp)

F

2

Oct

Concepts of ecology, environment, scales, functional units

Reading

 
2 (dcp)

M

5

Oct

Origins of earth, abiotic environment, climate, weather

Reading 2

3 (dcp)

W

7

Oct

Origins and diversification of life; habitat modification, Reading for lecture 3
4 (dcp)

F

9

Oct

Patterns in space and time; biomes,

Slides

Reading for lecture 4

 Q1

 
5 (bs)

M

12

Oct

Theories of evolution and the Darwinian revolution
Read Chapter 20
6 (bs)

W

14

Oct

Population Genetics: Hardy-Weinberg, mutation, selection)
Read Chapter 21, p 416-420
7 (bs)

F

16

Oct

Population genetics and Darwinian Medicine
Read Chapter 21, p 420-428
PopGen 2.0 Software for the Mac

 Q2

 
8 (bs)

M

19

Oct

Natural selection and Adaptation
Read Chapter 21, p 428-431, 433
9 (bs)

W

21

Oct

Sexual selection and Summary of Microevolutionary Theory
Read Chapter 21, 432, Chapter 50
10 (bs)

F

23

Oct

Speciation
Read Chapter 22

 Q3

 
11 (bs)

M

26

Oct

The evolution of sex and hosts-parasites
p. 396-398
12 (bs)

W

28

Oct

Phylogenetic inference

Chapter 23: p. 469-472, p. 476-479

My notes contain a lot of info that is not in Campbell.

13 (bs)

F

30

Oct

Molecular evolution
Chapter 23: p. 472-476, also see p. 655 for primate origins., pseudogenes 354-356.

My notes contain a lot of info that is not in Campbell.

 Q4

 
14 (bs)

M

2

Nov

Development and Evolution
Chapter 23: p. 460-462

Chapter 43, p.986-990.

My notes contain a lot of info that is not in Campbell.

15 (bs)

W

4

Nov

Human Evolution
Chapter 30: p. 654-662

My notes contain a lot of info that is not in Campbell.

16 (bs)

F

6

Nov

The Origin of the Metazoa and Cambrian Explosion
Chapter 24, 25 on prokaryotes,
Annelids, Arthropods: Chapter 29: p. 607-619. p. 622-624.

 Q5

 

M

9

Nov

MID-TERM EXAMINATION  
17 (dcp)

W

11

Nov

Individuals

Reading 17

18 (dcp)

F

13

Nov

Populations - Distributions

Reading

Slides

 Q6

 
19 (dcp)

M

16

Nov

Populations - Structure

Readings 19

Slides

20 (dcp)

W

18

Nov

Populations - Life Tables

Readings 20

21 (dcp)

F

20

Nov

Populations - Growth

Reading 21

Slides

 Q7

 
22 (dcp)

M

23

Nov

Population Growth

Reading 22

Slides

23 (dcp)

W

25

Nov

California Condor

 Q8

F

27

Nov

THANKSGIVING BREAK  
 
24 (dcp)

M

30

Nov

Communities

Reading 24

25 (dcp)

W

2

Dec

Succession

Slides

Reading 25

26 (dcp)

F

4

Dec

Ecosystems

Reading 26

 Q9

 
27 (bs)

M

7

Dec

Macroevolutionary patterns and mass extinctions

Readings: 462-469, p. 1138-1142

28 (bs)

W

9

Dec

Biogeography

Readings: see 12/7, & 651-654

39 (bs/dcp)

F

11

Dec

Biodiversity

 Q10

 

M

14

Dec

FINAL EXAMINATION 8:00 - 11:00 a.m.  


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