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BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phylogenetic Tree, Macroevolution, Microevolution

Bio120 lecture 1: introduction to evolutionary biology 10th september 2018. Living organisms change slowly over a period of time. Adaptations are the r

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Special Creation, Macroevolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky

Bio120 lecture 1: introduction to evolutionary biology. September 10, 2018 (relevant reading why evolution is true, coyne: chapter 1) 1) living things

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mendelian Inheritance, Special Creation, Intelligent Design

Review from high school that you should know - basic mendelian genetics. Theory of evolution is the important central idea that unifies biology. It inf

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: August Weismann, Germ Cell, Her Majesty'S Ship

Dr. wright will be here from 9-9:45am before the lecture for a tutorial. The open questions that were facing darwin at the time. Paley argued that beca

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hms Beagle, Linnean Society Of London, Botany

Darwin"s big idea: origins of evolutionary thought, development of darwin"s idea. Species have been specifically created by a designer/creator: ex. A t

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Botany, Hms Beagle, Gradualism

Bio120 lecture 2: charles darwin 12th september 2018. Unlike a rock in the desert , living things have been created and designed to have a certain func

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Botany, Her Majesty'S Ship

Bio120 lecture 2: darwin"s big idea and how it changed. September 12, 2018 (relevant reading why evolution is true, coyne: chapter. Paley"s argument wa

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Endemism, Adaptive Radiation, Hms Beagle

Inform us to what common ancestors look like. Lessons from geology: earth is very old, allowed an immense of time for evolutionary change, transitional

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adaptive Radiation, Endemism, Tiktaalik

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cactus, Rodent, Herbivore

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biogeography, Endemism, Her Majesty'S Ship

BIO120H1 Lecture 4: BIO120 Lecture 4 Variation

Variation: individuals must differ for evolution and natural selection to occur. Heritable traits: the traits must be inheritable from parents to offsp

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phenotype, Mutation Rate, Meiosis

Darwin"s theory revisited: variation: individual variation in a population, heredity: progeny resemble their parents. Selection: some forms are more su

BIO120H1 Lecture 4: BIO120 Lecture 4, Section 0101 - September 19, 2018 (10am - 11am)

Bio120 lecture 4: evolutionary significance of genetic variation. September 19, 2018 (relevant reading why evolution is true, coyne: chapter 5) In a fi

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ophioglossum, Phenotype, J. B. S. Haldane

Atgcagt atggcagt: changes in repeat number. In humans: per base pair of dna is. Fitness-affecting mutation rates in eukaryotes (wright, lecture 4, slid

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Probability Distribution, Genetic Drift, Neo-Darwinism

People differ on average by millions of genetic changes in their genome sequence. Foundations of population genetics: theoretical population genetics w

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neo-Darwinism, Genetic Drift, Heterozygote Advantage

Bio120 lecture 5: genetic variation: models and. September 24, 2018 (relevant reading why evolution is true, coyne: chapter 5) These people differ on a

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eichhornia Crassipes, Sexual Reproduction, Parthenogenesis

6: why did sex evolve, how do we explain the diversity of reproductive systems, what are the costs and benefits of inbreeding and outbreeding? (image w

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Passiflora, Outcrossing, Sexual Reproduction

Bio120 lecture 6: sex, reproductive systems and evolution. September 26, 2018 (relevant reading why evolution is true, coyne: chapter 6) Why did sex ev

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Genetic Drift, Gene Flow, Phenotypic Plasticity

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Genetic Drift, Phenotypic Plasticity, Gene Flow

Bio120 lecture 7: population structure, gene flow & genetic. Population structure, gene flow & genetic drift: population differentiation. Population gr

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stabilizing Selection, Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Crypsis

Bio120 lecture 8: natural selection and adaptation. October 3, 2018 (relevant reading why evolution is true, coyne: chapter 5) Tradeoffs associated wit

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ecological Speciation, Genetic Drift, Species Problem

Bio120 lecture 9: species, speciation and hybridization. October 10, 2018 (relevant reading why evolution is true, coyne: chapter 7) Hawaiian honeycree

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cichlid, Dna Sequencing, Paraphyly

In july 1837, darwin began his notebook on the transmutation of species and on page 36 he wrote i think above his first evolutionary tree. Phylogenetic

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Multicellular Organism, Rna Interference, Meiotic Drive

Evolution of complexity: how did complexity evolve: the major transitions in evolution, what does selection act on, evolution of genomic cooperation, g

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Herbicide, Evolutionary Medicine, Glyphosate

Agricultural relevance: pesticide and herbicide resistance. Evolutionary medicine: evolution of resistance to antibiotics, evolution-proof vaccination.

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ecological Succession, Biogeography, Prokaryote

Bio120 lecture 13: what ecology is and why it matters. October 24, 2018 (relevant reading part 3, struggle for existence; simutext chapter: biogeograph

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Crassulacean Acid Metabolism, Ecophysiology, Photorespiration

November 12, 2018 (relevant reading part 5, struggle for existence; simutext chapter: Physiological ecology, section 1; excerpt from lab girl, hope jah

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Scarlet Macaw, Ecological Niche, Invasive Species

Bio120 lecture 134: climate and other niche axes. October 29, 2018 (relevant reading part 3, struggle for existence; simutext chapter: biogeography, Se

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Temperate Climate, Ecophysiology, Evaporative Cooler

October 31, 2018 (relevant reading part 4, struggle for existence; simutext chapter: biogeography, Section 4; optional: part 4, struggle for existence.

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Pleiotropy, Gamma Diversity, Beta Diversity

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Little Brown Bat, The Population Bomb, Natural Resource Management

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Life Table, Evolutionary Ecology, Semelparity And Iteroparity

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Mantis, Invasive Species, Competitive Exclusion Principle

Bio120 lecture 20: predation, parasitism, and disease. November 26, 2018 (relevant reading struggle for existence, part 7) Predator prey, plant herbivo

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Nectar, Beeswax, Cleaner Fish

BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Insular Biogeography, Patch Dynamics, Metapopulation