1. NS 1300 Emergence of Modern Science
Strategies of Life

2. 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?

3. Systematics Taxonomy Classification Binomial naming system
Hierarchical
Parsimony

4. Population Ecology
Populations
Density
Dispersal
Diversity
Richness

5. Life Histories Reproduction Population Growth Carrying Capacity
Limiting Factors
Life Tables
Survivorship Curve
Reproductive Rates

6. Reproductive Strategies
Ovipary
Ovivivipary
Vivipary
Semelparity
Iteroparity

7. Population Growth Growth Curves DN/Dt = B – D Zero population growth
Exponential population growth
Population crash

8. Carrying Capacity Limiting Factors Predation Environmental Change
Lotka-Volterra Equations
Environmental Change
Succession
Anthropogenic

9. Fungi
Formidable Fungus is World's Largest Organism Mega mushroom expands in Oregon forest

10. Types of Fungi
Basidiomycota
Ascomycota
Zygomycota
chytridiomycota

11. Molds
Asexual stages
Spores
Deuteromycetes (Imperfect Fungi)

12. A Tale of Two Yeasts
Saccharomyces
Candida

13. Lichens Mycorihizae Symbiotic Organism
Algae or Cyanobacteria
Fungus
Symbiosis of Plant Roots and Fungi
Mycorihizae

14. Land Plants Bryophytes (Liverworts, Hornworts and Mosses)
Vascular Plants
Pteridophytes (Ferns)
Seed Plants
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms

15. Adaptations to Land Apical Meristems
Reproduction (Alternation of Generations)
Water Conservation
Vascular Tissue

16. Bryophytes Hepatophyta (Liverworts) Anthocerophyta (Hornworts)
Bryophyta (Mosses)

17. Vascular Plants Pteridophyts (Seedless Vascular Plants) Lycophytes
Pterophyta
Psilophytes (Whisk Ferns)
Sphenophytes (Horsetails)
True Ferns

18. Seed Plants

19. Gymnosperms Ginkgophyta (Ginkgos) Cycadophyta (Cycads) Gnetophyta
Coniferophyta (Conifers)

20. Angiosperms
Anthophyta
Monocots
Dicots

21. The Flowering Plant

22. Angiosperm Life Cycle

23. Pollination

24. Fruit

25. Seed Dispersal

26. Two Views of Animal Diversity

27. Animal Evolution 1st Eukaryotes 1st Colonial Eukaryotes
1st Multi-cellular Animals
Cambrian Explosion

28. Coelom
Acoelomates
Pseudocoelomates
Coelomates

29. Body Plans

30. Symmetry

31. Surface Area

32. 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.