NS 1300 Emergence of Modern Science Strategies of Life
How diverse is the tree of life? How many types of living organisms are there? How can we keep track of them all? What strategies do they use to survive? What adaptations have they made through evolution?
Systematics Taxonomy Classification Binomial naming system Hierarchical Parsimony
Population Ecology Populations Density Dispersal Diversity Richness
Life Histories Reproduction Population Growth Carrying Capacity Limiting Factors Life Tables Survivorship Curve Reproductive Rates
Reproductive Strategies Ovipary Ovivivipary Vivipary Semelparity Iteroparity
Population Growth Growth Curves DN/Dt = B – D Zero population growth Exponential population growth Population crash
Carrying Capacity Limiting Factors Predation Environmental Change Lotka-Volterra Equations Environmental Change Succession Anthropogenic
Fungi Formidable Fungus is World's Largest Organism Mega mushroom expands in Oregon forest
Types of Fungi Basidiomycota Ascomycota Zygomycota chytridiomycota
Molds Asexual stages Spores Deuteromycetes (Imperfect Fungi)
A Tale of Two Yeasts Saccharomyces Candida
Lichens Mycorihizae Symbiotic Organism Algae or Cyanobacteria Fungus Symbiosis of Plant Roots and Fungi Mycorihizae
Land Plants Bryophytes (Liverworts, Hornworts and Mosses) Vascular Plants Pteridophytes (Ferns) Seed Plants Gymnosperms Angiosperms
Adaptations to Land Apical Meristems Reproduction (Alternation of Generations) Water Conservation Vascular Tissue
Bryophytes Hepatophyta (Liverworts) Anthocerophyta (Hornworts) Bryophyta (Mosses)
Vascular Plants Pteridophyts (Seedless Vascular Plants) Lycophytes Pterophyta Psilophytes (Whisk Ferns) Sphenophytes (Horsetails) True Ferns
Seed Plants
Gymnosperms Ginkgophyta (Ginkgos) Cycadophyta (Cycads) Gnetophyta Coniferophyta (Conifers)
Angiosperms Anthophyta Monocots Dicots
The Flowering Plant
Angiosperm Life Cycle
Pollination
Fruit
Seed Dispersal
Two Views of Animal Diversity
Animal Evolution 1st Eukaryotes 1st Colonial Eukaryotes 1st Multi-cellular Animals Cambrian Explosion
Coelom Acoelomates Pseudocoelomates Coelomates
Body Plans
Symmetry
Surface Area
Quiz 1. T or F, vivipary is the strategy of live birth. 2. T or F, nitrogen is a common limiting factor in most environments. 3. T or F, the earth’s carrying capacity for people has been determined to be 6 billion. 4. T or F, xylem and phloem are vascular tissue in plants. 5. T or F, only prokaryotic animals have a coelom.