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CONCEPTS AND TERMS FOR DIALOGUE 1

We assume that most of these terms are not new to you.  You have been exposed to many of them in the preceding three Biology courses.  We expect you to know them.  That means you should know more than just definitions.  We expect you to use the terms appropriately in writing and speech.  We expect you to be able to spell and pronounce them correctly as well.  Use this week to become familiar with the following terms and look for them on the first game.

CONCEPTS AND TERMS FOR CLADISTICS

  1. APOMORPHIC CHARACTER
  2. BRANCH LENGTH
  3. CHARACTER
  4. CHARACTER STATE
  5. CHARACTERxTAXON MATRIX
  6. CLADE
  7. CLADOGRAM
  8. DERIVED OR ADVANCED CHARACTER
  9. DICHOTOMY
  10. NODE
  11. NUMERICAL TAXONOMY
  12. PARSIMONY
  13. PHYLOGRAM
  14. PLESIOMORPHIC CHARACTER
  15. POLYTOMY
  16. PRIMITIVE CHARACTER
  17. REVERSAL
  18. SYNAPOMORPHY
  19. SYNPLESIOMORPHY
  20. TAXON
  21. TREE LENGTH
  22. WEIGHTED CHARACTER

CONCEPTS AND TERMS FOR TAXONOMY

  1. ARTIFICIAL TAXON
  2. BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE
  3. CLASS
  4. DIVISION
  5. DOMAIN
  6. FAMILY
  7. GENUS
  8. KINGDOM
  9. NATURAL TAXON
  10. ORDER
  11. PHYLUM
  12. POLYPHYLETIC TAXON
  13. SPECIES
  14. SPECIFIC EPITHET
  15. SYSTEM
  16. SYSTEMATICS
  17. TAXA

CONCEPTS AND TERMS FOR PHYLOGENY

  1. ADVANCED OR DERIVED STATE
  2. ANCESTOR
  3. ANCESTRAL FORM
  4. DENDROGRAM
  5. EVOLUTIONARY LINE
  6. EVOLUTIONARY TREND
  7. HOMOPLASY
  8. PRIMITIVE STATE

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY

  1. ADAPTATION
  2. BOTTLENECK
  3. CONTINGENCY
  4. CONVERGENT EVOLUTION
  5. COOPTION
  6. DESCENT FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR
  7. DISPERSAL
  8. EXTINCTION
  9. FOUNDER POPULATION
  10. GRADUALNESS OF EVOLUTION
  11. GROUP SELECTION
  12. ISOLATING MECHANISM
  13. KIN SELECTION
  14. MACROEVOLUTION
  15. MOLECULAR CLOCK
  16. MULTIPLICATION OF SPECIES (ORIGIN OF DIVERSITY)
  17. MUTATION
  18. NATURAL SELECTION
  19. NEW SYNTHESIS
  20. PARALLEL EVOLUTION
  21. PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM
  22. SEXUAL SELECTION
  23. SPECIATION
  24. SPECIATION –ALLOPATRIC, PERIPATRIC, SYMPATRIC
  25. STABILIZING SELECTION
  26. VARIATION (NONCONSTANCY OF SPECIES)

ADDITIONAL CONCEPTS AND TERMS FROM THE READINGS

  1. BOTFLY
  2. CHAGA'S DISEASE
  3. CHALK
  4. DOMESTICATION
  5. DOMESTIC PIGEON
  6. DOWN HOUSE
  7. EARTHWORMS
  8. FLINT
  9. H.M.S. BEAGLE
  10. LAWS OF CORRELATION
  11. LAWS OF EMBRYOLOGY
  12. LAWS OF VARIATION
  13. PARASITE
  14. PRINCIPLE OF SELECTION
  15. REVERSION
  16. ROCK PIGEON
  17. SANDWALK
  18. SELECTION
  19. TRYPANOSOMA

NAMES TO KNOW

  1. BLYTH
  2. CHAMBERS
  3. CUVIER
  4. DARWIN
  5. DOBZHONSKY
  6. GOULD
  7. GRAY
  8. HENNIG
  9. HOOKER
  10. HUXLEY, J.
  11. HUXLEY, T.H
  12. LAMARCK
  13. LYELL
  14. MALTHUS
  15. MAYR
  16. OWEN
  17. WALLACE

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