1st Edition
BCOR 012: Exploring Biology
School: The University of Vermont (UVM )
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Pages: 3Goes over the competitive exclusion principle, ecological niches (definition with examples), and then the fundamental structure of a community. -
Pages: 2Restates the major life characteristic then goes into more depth about the human population and the effect we have on the Earth. Chapter 54 is then introduced and some terms are defined. -
Pages: 3Goes through different growth models of exponential and logistic and their mathematical formulas. Life history traits are then defined and explained. Then connects the growth models to life history traits. -
Pages: 3Begins with the idea that there are epics and the influence humans have had on Earth. Introduces the idea of sustainability with a definition. Then dives into a broader sense of ecology and then goes to population ecology. -
Pages: 9Goes through material presented in class on Chapters 25, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, & 34 -
Pages: 4Goes into depth about the remaining tetrapods including amphibians, amniotes, sauropsids, mammals, and humans. -
Pages: 4An introduction of the chordates. Starts with the most basal and then goes through the most basal phyla and goes into more detail about the vertebrates. Specifically fish ending with the start of the tetrapods. -
Pages: 4Starts off which a sight about ecdyozoansa and then goes into more depth about two phyla: nematodes and arthropods. Echinoderms major characters and then introduced at the very end of the notes. -
Pages: 4Goes into detail about sponges and Cnidarians and specifically the lophotrochozoan clade of animals. -
Pages: 3Introduction to the phylogenetic tree of animals including the main groups and what differentiates them. Goes into depth on the specific group, bilaterians, and the sub-groups of these taxa of animals. -
Pages: 3Goes into detail of the key differences between seed plants and seedless plants. Angiosperms and gymnosperms are then gone and talked into depth, specifically angiosperms and the reproductive cycle of gymnosperms. -
Pages: 3Finishes up talking about seedless vascular plants and their lineages and means of reproductivity. Then goes into Chapter 30 and seed plants and their history and the components of a seed. -
Pages: 3Goes through the land plants origins and the problems they faced while going to land but why it was beneficial. As well as how nonvascular plants reproduce. -
Pages: 3Into depth about bacteria and their cell walls and purposes of using color dye to determine what type of bacteria are present. The names of cells based on their metabolic processes and their nutritional modes and some information about the human as a microbiome well. -
Pages: 3Start to look at bacteria and archaea and how they are unique and different than the rest of life on Earth. -
Pages: 2Describing the difference between non-life forms and life forms as well as going into the geological record of Earth's history and how oxygen increased dramatically in the atmosphere. -
Pages: 8Looks at key points discussed in Chapter 22-24, & 26 during lecture 1-7. -
Pages: 3We finish talking about how phylogenetic trees are constructed and what types of data or characteristics are used to form them. There is a little review section of past lectures. We then go on to talk about the Cell theory of life and it's components as well as the possible processes of where the first cell originated. -
Pages: 3Describes a phylogenetic tree and its key points as well as tips when reading one. Also goes through labels on a tree. -
Pages: 3Definitions of types of speciation as well as what can cause them. The discussion of hybrid zones and what can happen at these zones between two species. -
Pages: 3We defined the types of natural selection. Then we started in to Chapter 24 with speciation, the definition concept we'll use and reproductive barriers. -
Pages: 3We go through how to solve an evolutionary based question using the Hardy-Weinberg equation and also discuss what can cause changes in allele frequencies in the population. -
Pages: 3Overview of microevolution and mechanisms that cause evolution. Goes through how to calculate frequency of an allele in a given population. Also goes through the Hardy-Weinberg equation. -
Pages: 3Overview of theories of evolution including Lamark's and Darwin's observations and inferences. Includes important points on Natural Selection. -
Pages: 2Review of major themes of biology with some information and vocabulary about descent with modification.