Life+test+part+2+Study+Guide

KEY: MC=multiple choice SA= short answer T/F= true or False- always need to correct the false

List long reaching effects of disproving spontaneous generation (these were from the video). (SA)

What is the phylogenetic species definition vs biological and what their limitations? (MC & T/F)

Why Oxygen is considered to have not been present in the beginning earth?

What is a cladogram and be able to read one at a basic level- pick out most ancestral group & closely related, recently formed.(MC and T/F)

Be able to use a dichotomous key to identify organisms.

What is an adaptation and relate root adaptations to function/type of root (MC & T/F)

The presumed order of events from prebiotic to biotic times including the timeline for key events (Big Bang to Mammals begin-see the geologic ribbon in text). (matching and MC)

What is the endosymbiont theory?(T/F)

Know the contributions of the scientists: Oparin, Redi, Pasteur, Needham and Spallanzani, Margulis, Fox, Miller and Urey (matching and SA & MC)

Ancestral vs derived characters; spontaneous generation vs biogenesis(MC & SA) Give a concrete example of Spontaneous generation(SA)

(10 pts) History about the experiments around spontaneous generation: You will be asked to complete short answers about reasons for certain experiments and their designs and be able to explain the end results. Understand that solving a scientific investigation takes the work of many scientists collaborating together or working with the knowledge gained, (even the work of those who may be long dead) to go forward and improve on it or add to it and it can be a very long process as new knowledge is added and new techniques are discovered (ie. apply the “science as inquiry” theme.)