Bio Final

What is the Anthropocene Era?

What is science?

What is the general process of the scientific method?

What is a hypothesis?

What are some limitations of science?

What is the difference between a scientific name, a common name, and a standardized name?

Why do we need scientific names instead of just using common names?

Know the taxonomic levels and their order in the hierarchy from Domain to Species.

What is the correct format for writing or typing a scientific name?

How can evolution be described in terms of alleles in a population?

What are alleles?

What is artificial selection?

What are adaptations?

How is herbicide resistance an example of natural selection?

What is a phenotype?

How does natural selection affect poorly adapted vs. well adapted phenotypes?

Are adaptive phenotypes at one time necessarily going to be adaptive all of the time?

Does natural selection have a goal?

What is a mutation? Why is it important in evolution?

What is sexual selection?

What is gene flow?

What is genetic drift? Founder effect? Bottleneck?

What is extinction?

What are some reasons why extinctions happen?

What is a mass extinction?

What is a population?

What is ecology?

What is population ecology?

Why should you personally care about population ecology?

What is population dynamics?

What are the 4 factors that influence population size?

What do the Type I, Type II, and Type III survivorship curves tell you about the characteristics of a species?

What is a population pyramid?

What can you learn about a population from looking at a population pyramid?

How do you know if a population is increasing in size, stable in size, or decreasing in size by looking at its population pyramid?

What is the birth rate, death rate, and growth rate of a population?

What is r?

What does a negative r tell you about a population? Positive r?

What does a graph of exponential growth look like?

What is logistic growth? How is it different from exponential growth?

What is carrying capacity (K)?

Is carrying capacity of a population always the same?

What do you think about the possibility of human K?

What is a/an introduced/exotic/alien/non-native species?

How could a non-native species be introduced? (We talked about several ways this could happen.)

What are some examples of the impacts that invasive species can have where they invade?

How can we manage invasive species? What are the differences between prevention, control, and eradication?

Be familiar with the examples of invasive species we discussed in class, specifically their common name, how they were introduced, and any particular problems that they are causing.

What is ecology?

What is community ecology?

What are the differences between the species interactions competition, mutualism and commensalism?

What is a symbiosis? Which community interactions are considered a type of symbiosis?