key note to revise

• Recombinant DNA Technology

• Gene Cloning

• Transgenic animals and cells

• Gene Therapy

• structural genes

• housekeeping genes

• regulatory genes

• gene structure

• translation

• transcription

• Mrna

• Trna

• rna?

• DNA

• microsatellite genotyping

• single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping

• mitochondrial DNA tsequencing

• rachel carson

• human and animal testing

• pre-zygotic isolation)

• accumulation of mutations;

• disposable soma;

• antagonistic pleiotropy.

• they allele effect

• extinction debt

• ecological trap

• Sources & Sinks population

• A Reminder: the Allee Effect

• Beating the Allee Effect: Chatham Island Robin & Kakapo

• Populations only persist in large areas

• The species-area relationship

• Extinction Rates & Extinction Debt

• Meta-Population Theory and Sources & Sinks

• Perception Errors & Ecological Traps

• Bill + beetle + beer = conservation

• Student Activity #1

• How do ecological conditions affect life histories?

• Collapse of Northwest Atlantic Cod

• What factors influence population densities? (e.g. Elephant Seals)

• Logistic Growth

• Density Dependence & Density Independence (e.g. Song Sparrows)

• iteroparity

• Semelparity

• Carrying capacity (k)