Population Genetics

• Species concept, gene pools
• Determining genotype and phenotype frequencies
• Hardy Weinberg equilibrium
• Solving Hardy Weinberg problems
• Effects of mutation, gene flow, population size, and assortative mating on genetic equilibrium
• Genetic drift, population bottlenecks
• Founder effect
• Natural selection: stabilizing, disruptive, & directional
• Peppered moth
• Artificial selection by humans
• Heterozygote advantage
• Hybrid vigor

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The Origin of LIfe

• Formation of the solar system
• Scenarios for the origin of life
• Steps proposed in the origin of life
• RNA as the first enzyme
• The Miller-Urey experiments
• Early life on Earth
• Endosymbiosis and the origin of eukaryotic cells
• Domains of life
• The search for life off Earth
• Organic molecules in space
• The Viking experiments
• The SETI Project

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Evolution

• Evidence for evolution: comparative embryology and anatomy, fossil record, DNA hybridization, amino acid sequencing
• Homologous vs analogous structures
• Vestigial organs
• Biogeography and evolution
• Early evolutionary theory
• Evo-Devo and homeotic genes
• Natural selection, species concept, isolating mechanisms
• Speciation: allopatric, sympatric, instant speciation by polyploidy
• Past speciation events
• Convergent and divergent evolution, adaptive radiation, coevolution
• Species life cycle
• Extinction

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