Quiz 3 Review

Foundational Principles of Evolution:

1.      There are different “types” of animals

2.      Animal “types” form unique populations

3.      Population members have individuality

a.        

4.      Individual characteristics are not equally successful or favored

a.        

Principles proposed by Darwin and Wallace:

 

5.      Success or superiority is context specific

6.      Overpopulation occurs and creates intrapopulation competition

a.       Competition –

b.      Competitive interactions -

c.       Competitive Exclusion – one population usurps all available resources

                                                               i.      No competitive exclusion

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2.       

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b.       

c.        

d.        

d.       Carrying Capacity –

                                                               i.      Struggle for Existence, Law of the Minimum

e.       Character displacement vs. Character release

7.      Competition causes “inferior” individuals to procreate less successfully

a.       Intrapopulation competition “selects” for beneficial (superior) traits

8.      Successful “favored” traits become prevalent in future generations

People:

·         Justus von Liebig

·         Darwin

·         Lewis & Clark

·         Lamark

·         Thomas Malthus

·         Wallace

·         Thomas Jefferson

·         Gause

·         Plato

 

·         Traveled on the Beagle, hypothesized at home

·         Collected & sold organisms, did field work

·         Collected fossils, sent explorers to find mammoth

·         Sent on an expedition to discover new animals

·         Believed fossils were extinct animals

·         Organisms have true “essence”

·         Showed competitive exclusion with bacteria

·         Economist that studied limitations on carrying capacity “struggle for existence”

·         Developed the law of the minimum