Conditions of Early Earth
 Be able to describe the environment
 The importance of Stanley Miller’s experiment
 What are fossilized lung fishes evidence of? How many times have the continents
come together? What the last super continent called? How long ago did the modern
continents begin to take shape?
 Was O2 present in Earth’s primitive atmosphere?
 Which environment on early earth allowed for polypeptides and other
macromolecules to be synthesized from smaller organic monomers?
 When were the earliest fossils discovered? What were they of?
 Plate tectonics and how they may cause earth quakes or form mountains (ex.
Himalayas)
 How many mass extinctions have there been? Know about the major 2 we discussed
in class.
 Radiometric dating
 Adaptive radiation
 Paedomorphosis
 What was the genetic material for the first self-replicating cells?
Classification
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In the three-domain system (Archaea, Bacteria , and Eukaryota) how many
domains are prokaryotic and how many are eukaryotic?
Homologous vs. Analogous structures
Convergent evolution
Know the taxonomic categories.
Phylogeny
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What is a clade? What is a monophyletic taxon?
What is an ingroup? What is an outgroup?
Shared vs. Derived ancestral traits
Tracing Evolution
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What is a molecular clock? In your textbook, what disease was researched using
a molecular clock?