1. Science of Zoology and Evolution of Animal Diversity
Zoology, BIOL 1413
Saturday, September 4, 2004
Chapter 1
Science of Zoology and Evolution of Animal Diversity

3. Vocabulary Evolution Phylogeny Coelom Spiral Cleavage Homeothermy
Hypothesis
Theory
Proximate Causes

4. Vocabulary Experimental Sciences Experimental Method Controls
Evolutionary Sciences
Ultimate causes
Comparative Method

5. Vocabulary Inheritance of acquired characteristics
Transformational Evolution
Uniformitarianism
Perpetual change
Common descent
Multiplication of species
Gradualism
Natural selection

6. Vocabulary Sorting Fossil B.P. = Before present Homology Trends
Nested hierarchy
Ontogeny
phenotypes

7. Vocabulary Recapitulation Biogenetic law Heterochrony Speciation
Reproductive barriers
Allopatric speciation
Allele
Allelic frequency

8. Natural selection, species selection and catastrophic species selection interact to produce macroevolutionary trends that we see in the fossil record.

9. Vocabulary
Cretaceous extinction
Catastrophic species selection

10. Vocabulary Positive assortive mating Inbreeding Fitness
Sexual selection
Stabilizing selection
Directional selection
Disruptive selection
Species selection
Mass extinctions
Permian extinction

11. Vocabulary Macroevolution Polymorphism Gene pool Genotype Heterozygous
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
Genetic drift

12. Vocabulary Allopatric speciation Adaptive radiation
Phyletic gradualism
Punctuated equilibrium
Neo-Darwinism
Chromosomal theory of inheritance
microevolution