AP BIOLOGY REVIEW PLAN FOR THE MIDTERM EXAM EXAM FORMAT: 80 Multiple choices 80 points – 2 Essay questions / problems 20 points – 20 Extra credit multiple choices 10 points – TOPICS TO REVIEW: CHAPTER 22 DARWINIAN EVOLUTION – The predecessors of Darwin (Linnaeus, Lamarck, Malthus, Lyell, Wallace) Evolution by natural selection as Darwin saw it Evidence of natural selection Examples of natural selection Mechanisms of evolution CHAPTER 23 THE EVOLUTION OF POPULATIONS – Microevolution vs. macroevolution The Hardy-Weinberg Principle must be able to solve problems with it – 5 conditions that needs to remain constant for H-W. equilibrium Evolution caused by mutations, sexual selection, natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow Mechanisms of natural selection (stabilizing, disruptive and directional selection) Processes that preserve variation in the population CHAPTER 24 THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES – Definition of biological species Speciation Speciation by reproductive isolation (prezygotic and postzygotic barriers and subtypes) Allopatric and sympatric speciation Polyploidy Gradualism and punctuated equilibrium CHAPTER 25 THE HISTORY OF LIFE ON EARTH – for formation of the earth, first life on earth, first eukaryotic cells. Conditions of the early atmosphere Oparin-Haldane and Miller-Urey Protobionts RNA world The fossil record and dating fossils Endosymbiotic theory and the formation of eukaryotes Rise and fall of dominant groups (continental drift, mass extinctions, adaptive radiations) Importance of hox genes CHAPTER 26 PHYLOGENY AND THE TREE OF LIFE –
AP BIOLOGY REVIEW PLAN FOR THE MIDTERM EXAM EXAM FORMAT: 80 Multiple choices – 80 points 2 Essay questions / problems – 20 points 20 Extra credit multiple choices – 10 points TOPICS TO REVIEW: CHAPTER 22 – DARWINIAN EVOLUTION The predecessors of Darwin (Linnaeus, Lamarck, Malthus, Lyell, Wallace) Evolution by natural selection as Darwin saw it Evidence of natural selection Examples of natural selection Mechanisms of evolution CHAPTER 23 – THE EVOLUTION OF POPULATIONS Microevolution vs. macroevolution The Hardy-Weinberg Principle – must be able to solve problems with it 5 conditions that needs to remain constant for H-W. equilibrium Evolution caused by mutations, sexual selection, natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow Mechanisms of natural selection (stabilizing, disruptive and directional selection) Processes that preserve variation in the population CHAPTER 24 – THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Definition of biological species Speciation Speciation by reproductive isolation (prezygotic and postzygotic barriers and subtypes) Allopatric and sympatric speciation Polyploidy Gradualism and punctuated equilibrium CHAPTER 25 – THE HISTORY OF LIFE ON EARTH for formation of the earth, first life on earth, first eukaryotic cells. Conditions of the early atmosphere Oparin-Haldane and Miller-Urey Protobionts RNA world The fossil record and dating fossils Endosymbiotic theory and the formation of eukaryotes Rise and fall of dominant groups (continental drift, mass extinctions, adaptive radiations) Importance of hox genes CHAPTER 26 – PHYLOGENY AND THE TREE OF LIFE
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