Student Learning Outcomes and Terms, Week 3

Systematics, Ch 23

1. Understand how Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogeny are related.
2. Learn how fossils and geologic history can help us understand phylogeny.
3. See how biochemistry and molecular biology contribute to phylogeny.
4. Understand and be able to put together a simple cladogram.
5. Review Whittaker’s divisions of the 5 Kingdoms.

Comparative Genomics, Ch 24

1. Understand how comparing whole genomes enhances our ability to understand evolution

Terms and Concepts

• Phylogeny
• Systematics
• Extant; extinct
• Taxonomic hierarchy
• Binomial
• Homology; Analogy
• Clade; Cladogram
• Outgroup
• Shared ancestral character; Shared derived character
• parsimony
• Molecular clock
• Whittaker
• Genomics; transposons; synteny

Protists, a diverse group, Ch. 29

1. Be able to describe the basic characteristics of eukaryotes and hypothesize about their origin
2. Be able to identify key characteristics of major clades (phyla, divisions and higher) of protists
3. Understand and be able to discuss the ecological importance of protists

Terms: structure and form

• unicellular, colonial, multicellular
• Silica and calcium carbonate shells or skeletons
• alveolata, stramenopila, plasmodium
• algal pigments

Terms: movement

• flagella
• cilia
• amoeboid
• pseudopodia

Terms: metabolism

• Algae: Photoautotrophic
• Protozoa: Chemoheterotrophic

Terms: reproduction

• asexual and sexual
• Mitosis
• Meiosis
• Conjugation
• Syngamy

• Alternation of generations
• Sporophyte
• Gametophyte
• Zoospores (oomycota)

Terms: ecological role

• Habitat: Marine and freshwater
1. Plankton
2. Phytoplankton
• Role:
1. Primary producers
2. Pathogens
3. Decomposers
4. Mutualistic symbiosis: e.g. green algae/lichen; dinoflagellates/cnidarians

History:

· Index fossils (calcium carbonate shelled forams)

· Endosymbiosis