BISC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eyepiece, Reproductive Isolation, Artificial Insemination

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Bisc 100 study guide - lecture test i. Scientific study of life: living forms capture energy from the environment, reproduction. Imperfect copies lead to variation and modification of genes. Environment selects heritable traits (that will benefit the species survival) from existing ones: variation, heritability, fitness correlates with variation. Humans fuck with the selection process and pick what they like. Think corn and how grows faster cause we messed with it"s genes. Different functions and different species but come from a common ancestor resemble each other result of divergent evolution. Ex: human arm looks like a whale flipper. Common ancestor but the derivatives become more dissimilar over time. Look the same and have pretty much the same function but come from different. Different common ancestors but because of evolution they start to look alike. Ex: bird wings vs insect or bat wings.

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