Bio 1110 Final Exam Study Guide
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Definition of a population (19), community (20), and ecosystem
Survivorship curves (19)
Cause of the dinosaur extinction (14)
What is biological magnification? (20) How does it affect birds of prey? (20?)
Homologous vs. Analogous similarities (14)
Causes of loss of biodiversity (20)
Population size and its relationship to genetic diversity (13)
Definition of carrying capacity (19)
Logistic vs. exponential growth (19)
Density-independent vs. density-dependent factors (19)
Differences between K-selected and r-selected species (equilibrial vs.
opportunistic) (?)
Symbiosis; differences between mutualism, parasitism, predation, and hervivory
(20)
Look at some of the examples of symbiotic relationships (lynx and hare, etc.) (19)
Primary vs. secondary succession; pioneering vs. climax communities (?)
Acquired traits and Darwinism (?)
Natural selection and evolution (13)
Know the assumptions of Hardy-Weinberg (13?)
Biological species concept; who does it apply to? (14)
Paedomorphosis and exaptation (14)
Know what the Hardy-Weinberg equation means, i.e., what do p squared, 2pq,
and q squared represent? Don’t forget that p + q = 1 (13)
Genetic drift, e.g., founder effect and bottleneck effect (13)
Differences between directional, stabilizing, and disruptive selection (13)
What is the heterozygote advantage?(?)
Definition of ecological niche (20)
What are the pre-zygotic and post-zygotic barriers? (14)
Allopatric vs. sympatric speciation(14)
Punctuated equilibrium (14)
Gene sequence, protein sequence, and evolutionary distance (?)
Energy and matter in ecosystems; how are they different? (20)
Primary producers vs. primary consumers vs. secondary consumers vs. tertiary
consumers (20)
Detritivores (20)
Energy transfer efficiency in ecosystems (20)
Producers and consumers and population numbers (20)
Keystone species definition and examples (20)
Definitions of endangered and threatened species (19)
Invasive species (19)