Binghamton Bio 114 Final Review exam guide with answers latest update new update

All organisms are made of cells, and all cells come from pre-existing cells.
Conclusion: If you trace a cell's lineage back far enough, you will discover that all cells are
descended from a common ancestral cell - ANSWER- Cell Theory
The heritable change in a population over time or a change in gene frequency in a population
over a number of
generations - ANSWER- Evolution
what happens in short term, measured in fractions of lifetimes - ANSWER- Proximate
process
longer timeframe (lifetime or more) - ANSWER- Ultimate process
2 General Ideas:
Evolution explains variation
All species are related to each other through common ancestry - ANSWER- Evolutionary
Theory
collection of similar ecosystems but not part of hierarchy because it doesn't have emergent
properties - ANSWER- Biomes
a. Organisms have offspring similar to themselves.
b. We could select individual plants and animals on our farms to breed and produce offspring
that we considered beneficial.
c. There exists a large amount of diversity/variation among organisms within a species.
d. Differences among the members of a population mean that not all are affected in the same
way by ecological factors