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Describe the basic mechanism of adaptation by natural selection and predict when adaptation is likely or not likely to occur
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BIOL 1030
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Describe the basic tenets of ‘Darwinian evolution’: i) Tree of Life concept; ii) Natural selection, leading to adaptive evolution (including different modes of selection, and sexual selection)
[
BIOL 1010
]
Extend the concept of trade-offs to local adaptation and the evolution of specialists and generalists (and, as always, interpret evidence)
[
BIOL 3044
]
Predict ecological outcomes of hybridization
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BIOL 3044
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Recall the general biology of marine mammal taxa
[
BIOL 3090
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Understand the features that allowed transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments
[
BIOL 1011
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Describe conservation issues facing taxonomic and functional groups of metazoans
[
BIOL 2003
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Describe the basic mechanisms of extinction and radiation in the fossil record.
[
BIOL 2040
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Describe the differences and similarities between marine and terrestrial mammals and their relative ecological importance
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BIOL 3090
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Distinguish between cases of evolution versus non-evolutionary processes of biological change.
[
BIOL 2040
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Distinguish between mass extinctions and background extinctions and their implications for adaptation
[
BIOL 3326
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Evaluate evidence pertaining to simple cases of extinction and radiation in the fossil record.
[
BIOL 2040
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Explain the basic process of evolution by natural selection (following from what are sometimes called Darwin's postulates).
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BIOL 2040
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Explain/recognize adaptations.
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BIOL 2040
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Extend and apply this understanding to simple situations of tradeoffs, sexual selection and kin selection.
[
BIOL 2040
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Interpret phylogenies, and use phylogenies to test hypotheses about evolution (e.g. adaptation, speciation etc)
[
BIOL 2040
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Interpret the evidence that biologists use to determine whether traits are adaptive.
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BIOL 2040
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Know main animal diet types and adaptations to those diets
[
BIOL 1011
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Understand optimal foraging theory, the pros and cons of dietary techniques for estimating diet and the importance of the development of new technologies
[
BIOL 3090
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Understand the concepts and role genetics plays in conservation of marine mammals
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BIOL 3090
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Understand the evolutionary physiological adaptations in marine mammals to adapt to diving, cold and swimming
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BIOL 3090
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Understand the origins, taxonomic diversity, structure and ecological importance of the marine mammal orders and families
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BIOL 3090
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Associate metazoan phyla with the habitats/environments that they occupy
[
BIOL 2003
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Compare the variety of invertebrate and vertebrate animal body‐forms, ecologies, life histories, and physiologies
[
BIOL 2003
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Contrast the benefits and challenges of moving onto land
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BIOL 2004
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Describe the importance and diversity of vascular plants and success of terrestrial plant life
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BIOL 2004
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Distinguish between the application of genotype-by-environment interactions to local adaptation vs phenotypic plasticity.
[
BIOL 3044
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Explain the basic mechanism(s) by which evolutionarily novel characters (e.g. wings, eyes, blood clotting, flagellae) arise.
[
BIOL 2040
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Relate changes in animal systems to transition onto land
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BIOL 2003
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Relate evolutionary adaptations to plant development and reproduction
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BIOL 2004
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Relate genetic covariances to trade-offs between competing selection pressures (e.g. selection for more vs larger eggs).
[
BIOL 3044
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Use fitness functions (the correlation between ecological traits and fitness) to describe selection and predict responses.
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BIOL 3044
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Comprehend different evolutionary models for genetic load and how these led to the neutral theory of molecular evolution. Understand and describe the “Neutral theory” and the “nearly neutral theory”. Know the major predictions of neutral theory and give examples where predictions have been validated with real molecular data. Comprehend both the benefits and pitfalls of neutral theory.
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BIOL 3046
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Comprehend the complexity of homology relationships under a variety of different molecular evolutionary processes.
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BIOL 3046
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Describe the feeding morphology and trophic polymorphisms of various fish groups.
[
multiple courses
]
Identify life cycles and behavior of invertebrate animals and the adaptations of invertebrates to particular environments
[
BIOL 3301
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Know mechanisms for functional divergence at the molecular level that span a wide range of biological complexity. Understand how specific models of adaptive evolution explain real examples of functional divergence.
[
BIOL 3046
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Know the historical, cultural, and social framework that lead to the Darwinian theory of evolution
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BIOL 3046
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Know updates and extensions to Darwinian theory that led to modern theory. Comprehend and explain principles arising from the neo-Darwinian synthesis and neutral theory.
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BIOL 3046
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Outline the adaptations and diversity of physiology across terrestrial and marine phyla
[
BIOL 3078
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Relate morphology to function and selection pressures
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BIOL 3326
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Understand how explicit models of population genetic processes serve as the theoretical foundation for microevolution. Apply these models to understand different mechanisms of evolution acting on real biological data.
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BIOL 3046
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Understand how molecular evolutionary processes give rise to patterns of genetic diversity that we observe in the natural world, and how to use those patterns to make inferences about different processes.
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BIOL 3046
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Understand sound propagation in water, fundamental sound component analysis (e.g. amplitude, frequency), sound production and receiving mechanisms in various marine mammal taxa and the impacts harmful sound can have on populations
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BIOL 3090
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Understand the evolutionary significance of mutations at different levels of complexity. Apply evolutionary theory to understand impacts of mutations on fitness, rates of molecular evolution and genetic control of mutation.
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BIOL 3046
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Understand the importance of molecular evolution in the post-genomic era, and be able to explain this to non-specialists.
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BIOL 3046
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Understand the meaning of life history and the life history characteristics of cetaceans and pinniped and the factors that shape their evolution
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BIOL 3090
]
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