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BIOL 354 Final Exam Newest
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Evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) - correct answer ✔genetically distinct unit that is
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considered a priority for conservation. This term can apply to any species, subspecies,
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geographic race, or population. |||||| |||||| ||||||




Management Unit - correct answer ✔populations with significant divergence of allele
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frequencies, regardless of the phylogenetic distinctiveness of the alleles
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Hominin - correct answer ✔any species more closely related to humans than to chimps &
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bonobos


morphological disparity - correct answer ✔Taxonomic diversity is a poor proxy for
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morphological diversity Directly measure morphological diversity |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Morphospace - correct answer ✔the actual or potential range of morphologies
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What triggers evolutionary radiation? - correct answer ✔Ecological Opportunity, Key
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Innovation,


Speciation Rate - correct answer ✔The rate of new species being made (gamma)
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Extinction rate - correct answer ✔μ
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, biogeography - correct answer ✔The study of distributions of biodiversity, both past and |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




present.


Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) - correct answer ✔• Viewed Earth as changing and dynamic
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• Explained variation in life over space and time
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Age of European Exploration - correct answer ✔18th and 19th centuries
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Carl Linnaeus (1700s) - correct answer ✔• Provided a necessary method for classification
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• Believed that God speaks through nature
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• Paradisical Mountain 6,000 years ago - All life originated at the equator on the slopes of a
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"Paradisical Mountain". Each species adapted to a particular habitat along the slope. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Georges-Louis Buffon (1707-1788) - correct answer ✔Species dispersal hypothesis: single |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




species creation/ origination at north pole during warm period, followed by southern
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migration and adaptation to new environments. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




• Importance: dynamic climate + species adaptation
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• Buffon's Law - environmentally similar but isolated areas have
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distinct assemblages of birds and mammals. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Species Dispersal Hypothesis - correct answer ✔single species creation/ origination at north
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pole during warm period, followed by southern migration and adaptation to new
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environments.


Buffon's Law - correct answer ✔environmentally similar but isolated areas have
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distinct assemblages of birds and mammals. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) (Cook's first voyage) - correct answer ✔• Collected over 1,000
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new plant species |||||| ||||||

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