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25 Chapter Phylogeny and Systematics Lecture Outline Overview: Investigating the Tree of Life Evolutionary biology is about both process and history. The processes of evolution are natural selection and other mechanisms that change the genetic composition of populations and can lead to the evolution of new species. A major goal of evolutionary biology is to reconstruct the history of life on earth. In this chapter, we will consider how scientists trace phylogeny, the evolutionary history of a group of organisms. To reconstruct phylogeny, scientists use systematics, an analytical approach to understanding the diversity and relationships of living and extinct organisms. Evidence used to reconstruct phylogenies can be obtained from the fossil record and from morphological and biochemical similarities between organisms. In recent decades, systematists have gained a powerful new tool in molecular systematics, which uses comparisons of nucleotide sequences in DNA and RNA to help identify evolutionary relationships between individual genes or even entire genomes. Scientists are working to construct a universal tree of life, which will be refined as the database of DNA and RNA sequences grows. Concept 25.1 Phylogenies are based on common ancestries inferred from fossil, morphological, and molecular evidence Sedimentary rocks are the richest source of fossils. Fossils are the preserved remnants or impressions left by organisms that lived in the past. In essence, they are the historical documents of biology. Sedimentary rocks form from layers of sand and silt that are carried by rivers to seas and swamps, where the minerals settle to the bottom along with the remains of organisms. As deposits pile up, they compress older sediments below them into layers called strata. The fossil record is the ordered array in which fossils appear within sedimentary rock strata. These rocks record the passing of geological time. Fossils can be used to construct phylogenies only if we can determine their ages. 25-1 Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. The fossil record is a substantial, but incomplete, chronicle of evolutionary change. The majority of living things were not captured as fossils upon their death. Of those that formed fossils, later geological processes destroyed many. Only a fraction of existing fossils have been discovered. The fossil record is biased in favor of species that existed for a long time, were abundant and widespread, and had hard shells or skeletons that fossilized readily. Morphological and molecular similarities may provide clues to phylogeny. Similarities due to shared ancestry are called homologies. Organisms that share similar morphologies or DNA sequences are likely to be more closely related than organisms without such similarities. Morphological divergence between closely related species can be small or great. Morphological diversity may be controlled by relatively few genetic differences. Similarity due to convergent evolution is called analogy. When two organisms from different evolutionary lineages experience similar environmental pressures, natural selection may result in convergent evolution. Similar analogous adaptations may evolve in such organisms. Analogies are not due to shared ancestry. Distinguishing homology from analogy is critical in the reconstruction of phylogeny. For example, both birds and bats have adaptations that allow them to fly. However, a close examination of a bat's wing shows a greater similarity to a cat's forelimb that to a bird's wing. Fossil evidence also documents that bat and bird wings arose independently from walking forelimbs of different ancestors. Thus a bat's wing is homologous to other mammalian forelimbs but is analogous in function to a bird's wing. Analogous structures that have evolved independently are also called homoplasies. In general, the more points of resemblance that two complex structures have, the less likely it is that they evolved independently. For example, the skulls of a human and a chimpanzee are formed by the fusion of many bones. The two skulls match almost perfectly, bone for bone. It is highly unlikely that such complex structures have separate origins. 25-2 Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. More likely, the genes involved in the development of both skulls were inherited from a common ancestor. The same argument applies to comparing genes, which are sequences of nucleotides. Systematists compare long stretches of DNA and even entire genomes to assess relationships between species. If genes in two organisms have closely similar nucleotide sequences, it is highly likely that the genes are homologous. It may be difficult to carry out molecular comparisons of nucleic acids. The first step is to align nucleic acid sequences from the two species being studied. In closely related species, sequences may differ at only one or a few sites. Distantly related species may have many differences or sequences of different length. Over evolutionary time, insertions and deletions accumulate, altering the lengths of the gene sequences. Deletions or insertions may shift the remaining sequences, making it difficult to recognize closely matching nucleotide sequences. To deal with this, systematists use computer programs to analyze comparable DNA sequences of differing lengths and align them appropriately. The fact that molecules have diverged between species does not tell us how long ago their common ancestor lived. Molecular divergences between lineages with reasonably complete fossil records can serve as a molecular yardstick to measure the appropriate time span of various degrees of divergence. As with morphological characters, it is necessary to distinguish homology from analogy to determine the usefulness of molecular similarities for reconstruction of phylogenies. Closely similar sequences are most likely homologies. In distantly related organisms, identical bases in otherwise different sequences may simply be coincidental matches or molecular homoplasies. Scientists have developed mathematical tools that can distinguish "distant" homologies from coincidental matches in extremely divergent sequences. For example, such molecular analysis has provided evidence that humans share a distant common ancestor with bacteria. Scientists have sequenced more than 20 billion bases worth of nucleic acid data from thousands of species. Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. 25-3 Concept 25.2 Phylogenetic systematics connects classification with evolutionary history In 1748, Carolus Linnaeus published Systema naturae, his classification of all plants and animals known at the time. Taxonomy is an ordered division of organisms into categories based on similarities and differences. Linneaus's classification was not based on evolutionary relationships but simply on resemblances between organisms. Despite this, many features of his system remain useful in phylogenetic systematics. Taxonomy employs a hierarchical system of classification. Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7 Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. The Linnaean system, first formally proposed by Linnaeus in Systema naturae in the 18th century, has two main characteristics. 1. Each species has a two-part name. 2. Species are organized hierarchically into broader and broader groups of organisms. Under the binomial system, each species is assigned a two-part Latinized name, a binomial. The first part, the genus, is the closest group to which a species belongs. The second part, the specific epithet, refers to one species within each genus. The first letter of the genus is capitalized and both names are italicized and Latinized. For example, Linnaeus assigned to humans the optimistic scientific name Homo sapiens, which means "wise man." A hierarchical classification groups species into increasingly broad taxonomic categories. Species that appear to be closely related are grouped into the same genus. For example, the leopard, Panthera pardus, belongs to a genus that includes the African lion ( Panthera leo) and the tiger (Panthera tigris). Genera are grouped into progressively broader categories: family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, and domain. Each taxonomic level is more comprehensive than the previous one. As an example, all species of cats are mammals, but not all mammals are cats. The named taxonomic unit at any level is called a taxon. Example: Panthera is a taxon at the genus level, and Mammalia is a taxon at the class level that includes all of the many orders of mammals. Higher classification levels are not defined by some measurable characteristic, such as the reproductive isolation that separates biological species. th 25-4 As a result, the larger categories are not comparable between lineages. An order of snails does not necessarily exhibit the same degree of morphological or genetic diversity as an order of mammals. Classification and phylogeny are linked. Systematists explore phylogeny by examining various characteristics in living and fossil organisms. They construct branching diagrams called phylogenetic trees to depict their hypotheses about evolutionary relationships. The branching of the tree reflects the hierarchical classification of groups nested within more inclusive groups. Methods for tracing phylogeny began with Darwin, who realized the evolutionary implications of Linnaean hierarchy. Darwin introduced phylogenetic systematics in On the Origin of Species when he wrote: "Our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies." Concept 25.3 Phylogenetic systematics informs the construction of phylogenetic trees based on shared characters Patterns of shared characteristics can be depicted in a diagram called a cladogram. If shared characteristics are homologous and, thus, explained by common ancestry, then the cladogram forms the basis of a phylogenetic tree. A clade is defined as a group of species that includes an ancestral species and all its descendents. The study of resemblances among clades is called cladistics. Each branch, or clade, can be nested within larger clades. A valid clade is monophyletic, consisting of an ancestral species and all its descendents. When we lack information about some members of a clade, the result is a paraphyletic grouping that consists of some, but not all, of the descendents. The result may also be several polyphyletic groupings that lack a common ancestor. Such situations call for further reconstruction to uncover species that tie these groupings together into monophyletic clades. Determining which similarities between species are relevant to grouping the species in a clade is a challenge. It is especially important to distinguish similarities that are based on shared ancestry or homology from those that are based on convergent evolution or analogy. Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. 25-5 Systematists must also sort through homologous features, or characters, to separate shared derived characters from shared primitive characters. A "character" refers to any feature that a particular taxon possesses. A shared derived character is unique to a particular clade. A shared primitive character is found not only in the clade being analyzed, but also in older clades. For example, the presence of hair is a good character to distinguish the clade of mammals from other tetrapods. It is a shared derived character that uniquely identifies mammals. However, the presence of a backbone can qualify as a shared derived character, but at a deeper branch point that distinguishes all vertebrates from other mammals. Among vertebrates, the backbone is a shared primitive character because it evolved in the ancestor common to all vertebrates. Shared derived characters are useful in establishing a phylogeny, but shared primitive characters are not. The status of a character shared derived versus shared primitive may depend on the level at which the analysis is being performed. A key step in cladistic analysis is outgroup comparison, which is used to differentiate shared primitive characters from shared derived ones. To do this, we need to identify an outgroup, a species or group of species that is closely related to the species that we are studying, but known to be less closely related than any members of the study group are to each other. To study the relationships among an ingroup of five vertebrates (a leopard, a turtle, a salamander, a tuna, and a lamprey) on a cladogram, an animal called the lancelet is a good choice. The lancelet is a small member of the Phylum Chordata that lacks a backbone. The species making up the ingroup display a mixture of shared primitive and shared derived characters. In an outgroup analysis, the assumption is that any homologies shared by the ingroup and outgroup are primitive characters that were present in the common ancestor of both groups. Homologies present in some or all of the ingroup taxa are assumed to have evolved after the divergence of the ingroup and outgroup taxa. In our example, a notochord, present in lancelets and in the embryos of the ingroup, is a shared primitive character and, thus, not useful for sorting out relationships between members of the ingroup. Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. 25-6 Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7 Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. The presence of a vertebral column, shared by all members of the ingroup but not the outgroup, is a useful character for the whole ingroup. The presence of jaws, absent in lampreys and present in the other ingroup taxa, helps to identify the earliest branch in the vertebrate cladogram. Analyzing the taxonomic distribution of homologies enables us to identify the sequence in which derived characters evolved during vertebrate phylogeny. A cladogram presents the chronological sequence of branching during the evolutionary history of a set of organisms. However, this chronology does not indicate the time of origin of the species that we are comparing, only the to groups which they belong. For example, a particular species in an old group may have evolved more recently than a second species that belongs to a newer group. A cladogram is not a phylogenetic tree. To convert it to a phylogenetic tree, we need more information from sources such as the fossil record, which can indicate when and in which groups the characters first appeared. Any chronology represented by the branching pattern of a phylogenetic tree is relative (earlier versus later) rather than absolute (so many millions of years ago). Some kinds of tree diagrams can be used to provide more specific information about timing. In a phylogram, the length of a branch reflects the number of genetic changes that have taken place in a particular DNA or RNA sequence in a lineage. Even though the branches in a phylogram may have different lengths, all the different lineages that descend from a common ancestor have survived for the same number of years. Humans and bacteria had a common ancestor that lived more than 3 billion years ago. This ancestor was a single-celled prokaryote and was more like a modern bacterium than like a human. Even though bacteria have apparently changed little in structure since that common ancestor, there have nonetheless been 3 billion years of evolution in both the bacterial and eukaryotic lineages. These equal amounts of chronological time are represented in an ultrameric tree. In an ultrameric tree, the branching pattern is the same as in a phylogram, but all the branches that can be traced from the common ancestor to the present are of equal lengths. Ultrameric trees do not contain the information about different evolutionary rates that can be found in phylograms. th 25-7 However, they draw on data from the fossil record to place certain branch points in the context of geological time. The principles of maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood help systematists reconstruct phylogeny. As available data about DNA sequences increase, it becomes more difficult to draw the phylogenetic tree that best describes evolutionary history. If you are analyzing data for 50 species, there are 3 10 76 different ways to form a tree. According to the principle of maximum parsimony, we look for the simplest explanation that is consistent with the facts. In the case of a tree based on morphological characters, the most parsimonious tree is the one that requires the fewest evolutionary events to have occurred in the form of shared derived characters. For phylograms based on DNA sequences, the most parsimonious tree requires the fewest base changes in DNA. The principle of maximum likelihood states that, given certain rules about how DNA changes over time, a tree should reflect the most likely sequence of evolutionary events. Maximum likelihood methods are designed to use as much information as possible. Many computer programs have been developed to search for trees that are parsimonious and likely: "Distance" methods minimize the total of all the percentage differences among all the sequences. More complex "character-state" methods minimize the total number of base changes or search for the most likely pattern of base changes among all the sequences. Although we can never be certain precisely which tree truly reflects phylogeny, if they are based on a large amount of accurate data, the various methods usually yield similar trees. Any phylogenetic tree represents a hypothesis about how the organisms in the tree are related. The best hypothesis is the one that best fits all the available data. A hypothesis may be modified when new evidence compels systematists to revise their trees. Many older phylogenetic hypotheses have been changed or rejected since the introduction of molecular methods for comparing species and tracing phylogeny. Often, in the absence of conflicting information, the most parsimonious tree is also the most likely. Sometimes there is compelling evidence that the best hypothesis is not the most parsimonious. th 25-8 Phylogenetic trees are hypotheses. Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7 Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. Nature does not always take the simplest course. In some cases, the particular morphological or molecular character we are using to sort taxa actually did evolve multiple times. For example, the most parsimonious assumption would be that the four-chambered heart evolved only once in an ancestor common to birds and mammals but not to lizards, snakes, turtles, and crocodiles. But abundant evidence indicated that birds and mammals evolved from different reptilian ancestors. The hearts of birds and mammals develop differently, supporting the hypothesis that they evolved independently. The most parsimonious tree is not consistent with the above facts, and must be rejected in favor of a less parsimonious tree. The four-chambered hearts of birds and mammals are analogous, not homologous. Occasionally misjudging an analogous similarity in morphology or gene sequence as a shared derived homology is less likely to distort a phylogenetic tree if several derived characters define each clade in the tree. The strongest phylogenetic hypotheses are those supported by multiple lines of molecular and morphological evidence as well as by fossil evidence. Concept 25.4 Much of an organism's evolutionary history is documented in its genome Molecular systematics is a valuable tool for tracing an organism's evolutionary history. The molecular approach helps us to understand phylogenetic relationships that cannot be measured by comparative anatomy and other nonmolecular methods. For example, molecular systematics helps us uncover evolutionary relationships between groups that have no grounds for morphological comparison, such as mammals and bacteria. Molecular systematics enables scientists to compare genetic divergence within a species. Molecular biology has helped to extend systematics to evolutionary relationships far above and below the species level. Its findings are sometimes inconclusive, as in cases where a number of taxa diverged at nearly the same time. The ability of molecular trees to encompass both short and long periods of time is based on the fact that different genes evolve at different rates, even in the same evolutionary lineage. For example, the DNA that codes for ribosomal RNA (rRNA) changes relatively slowly, so comparisons of DNA sequences in Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. 25-9 these genes can be used to sort out relationships between taxa that diverged hundreds of millions of years ago. In contrast, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) evolved relatively recently and can be used to explore recent evolutionary events, such as relationships between groups within a species. Gene duplication has provided opportunities for evolutionary change. Gene duplication increases the number of genes in the genome, providing opportunities for further evolutionary change. Gene duplication has resulted in gene families, which are groups of related genes within an organism's genome. Like homologous genes in different species, these duplicated genes have a common genetic ancestor. There are two types of homologous genes: orthologous genes and paralogous genes. The term orthologous refers to homologous genes that are found in different gene pools because of speciation. The hemoglobin genes in humans and mice are orthologous. Paralogous genes result from gene duplication and are found in more than one copy in the same genome. Olfactory receptor genes have undergone many gene duplications in vertebrates. Humans and mice each have huge families of more than 1,000 of these paralogous genes. Now that we have compared entire genomes of different organisms, two remarkable facts have emerged. Orthologous genes are widespread and can extend over enormous evolutionary distances. Approximately 99% of the genes of humans and mice are demonstrably orthologous, and 50% of human genes are orthologous with those of yeast. All living things share many biochemical and development pathways. The number of genes seems not to have increased at the same rate as phenotypic complexity. Humans have only five times as many genes as yeast, a simple unicellular eukaryote, although we have a large, complex brain and a body that contains more than 200 different types of tissues. Many human genes are more versatile than yeast and can carry out a wide variety of tasks in various body tissues. Concept 25.5 Molecular clocks help track evolutionary time In the past, the timing of evolutionary events has rested primarily on the fossil record. Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. 25-10 One of the goals of evolutionary biology is to understand the relationships among all living organisms, including those for which there is no fossil record. Molecular clocks serve as yardsticks for measuring the absolute time of evolutionary change. They are based on the observation that some regions of the genome evolve at constant rates. For these regions, the number of nucleotide substitutions in orthologous genes is proportional to the time that has elapsed since the two species last shared a common ancestor. In the case of paralogous genes, the number of substitutions is proportional to the time since the genes became duplicated. We can calibrate the molecular clock of a gene by graphing the number of nucleotide differences against the timing of a series of evolutionary branch points that are known from the fossil record. The slope of the best line through these points represents the evolution rate of that molecular clock. This rate can be used to estimate the absolute date of evolutionary events that have no fossil record. No molecular clock is completely accurate. Genes that make good molecular clocks have fairly smooth average rates of change. No genes mark time with a precise tick-tock accuracy in the rate of base changes. Over time there may be chance deviations above and below the average rate. Rates of change of various genes vary greatly. Some genes evolve a million times faster than others. The molecular clock approach assumes that much of the change in DNA sequences is due to genetic drift and is selectively neutral. The neutral theory suggests that much evolutionary change in genes and proteins has no effect on fitness and, therefore, is not influenced by Darwinian selection. Researchers supporting this theory point out that many new mutations are harmful and are removed quickly. However, if most of the rest are neutral and have little or no effect on fitness, the rate of molecular change should be clocklike in their regularity. Differences in the rates of change of specific genes are a function of the importance of the gene. If the exact sequence of amino acids specified by a gene is essential to survival, most mutations will be harmful and will be removed by natural selection. If the sequence of genes is less critical, more mutations will be neutral, and mutations will accumulate more rapidly. Some DNA changes are favored by natural selection. Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. 25-11 This leads some scientists to question the accuracy and utility of molecular clocks for timing evolution. Evidence suggests that almost 50% of the amino acid differences in proteins of two Drosophila species have resulted from directional natural selection. Over very long periods of time, fluctuations in the rate of accumulation of mutations due to natural selection may even out. Even genes with irregular clocks can mark elapsed time approximately. Biologists are skeptical of conclusions derived from molecular clocks that have been extrapolated to time spans beyond the calibration in the fossil record Few fossils are older than 550 million years old. Estimates for evolutionary divergences prior to that time may assume that molecular clocks have been constant over billions of years. Such estimates have a high degree of uncertainty. The molecular clock approach has been used to date the jump of the HIV virus from related SIV viruses that infect chimpanzees and other primates to humans. The virus has spread to humans more than once. The multiple origins of HIV are reflected in the variety of strains of the virus. HIV-1 M is the most common HIV strain. Investigators have calibrated the molecular clock for the virus by comparing samples of the virus collected at various times. From their analysis, they project that the HIV-1 M strain invaded humans in the 1930s. There is a universal tree of life. The genetic code is universal in all forms of life. From this, researchers infer that all living things have a common ancestor. Researchers are working to link all organisms into a universal tree of life. Two criteria identify regions of DNA that can be used to reconstruct the branching pattern of this tree. The regions must be able to be sequenced. They must have evolved slowly, so that even distantly related organisms show evidence of homologies in these regions. rRNA genes, coding for the RNA component of ribosomes, meet these criteria. Two points have emerged from this effort: 1. The tree of life consists of three great domains: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya. Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. 25-12 2. The early history of these domains is not yet clear. Early in the history of life, there were many interchanges of genes between organisms in the different domains. One mechanism for these interchanges was horizontal gene transfer, in which genes are transferred from one genome to another by mechanisms such as transposable elements. Different organisms fused to produce new, hybrid organisms. It is likely that the first eukaryote arose through fusion between an ancestral bacterium and an ancestral archaean. Most prokaryotes belong to Bacteria. Archaea includes a diverse group of prokaryotes that inhabit many different habitats. Eukarya includes all organisms with true nuclei, including many unicellular organisms as well as the multicellular kingdoms. Lecture Outline for Campbell/Reece Biology, 7th Edition, Pearson Education, Inc. 25-13

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Description: Crayfish Anatomy Huxley, T. H. (1880). The Crayfish: An introduction of the study of zoology, New York: D. Appleton. p. 41 Objectives of Crayfish Anatomy and Paramecium Feeding Lab 1. Become familiar with anatomical terminology of position. 2. Un...
05_RESP_PHYS
Path: Texas >> BIO >> 206L Spring, 2008
Description: Respiration and Circulation in a Representative Invertebrate and Vertebrate Objectives 1. Observe and record the effect of oxygen concentration on the ventilation rate of the crayfish, Procambarus sp. 2. Observe and record the effect of exercise a...
Test 2
Path: N.C. State >> BUS >> 370 Spring, 2008
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Test 1
Path: N.C. State >> BUS >> 370 Spring, 2008
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07 PlantDev, ModelGen 2008
Path: Texas >> BIO >> 206L Spring, 2008
Description: This week in 206 From 2 weeks ago: Any live chickens? Fungi reproductive structures. I. Escherichia coli plasmid transformation and gene expression. antibiotic selection, bioluminescence, melanins Arabidopsis thaliana molecular genetic analysis. mu...
e1s07
Path: Texas >> CH >> 302 Spring, 2008
Description: Version 001 Exam 1 David Laude (53015) This print-out should have 30 questions. Multiple-choice questions may continue on the next column or page find all choices before answering. V1:1, V2:1, V3:1, V4:1, V5:2. Please make sure you write your vers...
solution quiz1_pdf
Path: Texas >> CH >> 302 Spring, 2008
Description: pnp223 Quiz 1 VANDEN BOUT (53585) This print-out should have 8 questions. Multiple-choice questions may continue on the next column or page find all choices before answering. 001 10.0 points The specific heat of liquid water is 4.184 J/g C, and o...
solution quiz2_pdf
Path: Texas >> CH >> 302 Spring, 2008
Description: pnp223 Quiz 2 VANDEN BOUT (53585) This print-out should have 7 questions. Multiple-choice questions may continue on the next column or page find all choices before answering. 001 10.0 points For the decomposition of ammonia to nitrogen and hydrog...
chem quiz 4
Path: Texas >> CH >> 302 Spring, 2008
Description: Version 366 Quiz 4 VANDEN BOUT (53585) This print-out should have 8 questions. Multiple-choice questions may continue on the next column or page find all choices before answering. 001 10.0 points What is the concentration of SO2- in 2.0 M 4 H2 SO...
ws3s08key
Path: Texas >> CH >> 302 Spring, 2008
Description: Spring 2008 CH 302 Worksheet 3 Below are listed various reactions, stresses, and reaction components. Indicate how the amount of the indicated component changes when the stress is applied. 1. Reaction Stress Component 3 H2 (g) + N2 (g) 2 NH3 (g) Add...
ws5s08key
Path: Texas >> CH >> 302 Spring, 2008
Description: CH302 Spring 2008 Worksheet 5 Answer Key 14 questions involving simple water equilbria and the approximations that make them simple. 1. The only water equilibrium for which we make no approximations is the case of pure water (amazing how simple somet...
ws6s08key
Path: Texas >> CH >> 302 Spring, 2008
Description: CH 302 Spring 2008 Worksheet 6 Key 1. You have a 750 mL solution of 0.1 M methylamine. You can\'t find the Kb for methylamine but notice that the Ka for its conjugate acid is 1 x 10-9. What is the pH of the methylamine solution? Answer: Kw = KaKb = 1 ...
ws7s08key
Path: Texas >> CH >> 302 Spring, 2008
Description: CH 302 Spring 2008 Worksheet 7 Answer Key For all of the problems on this worksheet, use the following K values: H3PO4: pKa1 = 2 pKa2 = 6 pKa3 = 10 H2CO3 : pKa1 = 4 pKa2 = 10 1. You drop 0.1 mol of KOH into 1 L of water. What is the pH of solution? p...
quizzes
Path: Texas >> CC >> 306M Spring, 2008
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ws1s08key
Path: Texas >> CH >> 302 Spring, 2008
Description: CH 302 Spring 2008 Worksheet 1 Answer Key A potpourri of thermo questions to get your mind reengaged. (Questions 1-6) Match the correct term for each question given below. You will only use an answer once, but not all the answers will be used. Word B...
ws2s08key
Path: Texas >> CH >> 302 Spring, 2008
Description: 1. Spring 2008 CH 302Worksheet 2 100 g of ice at -25C is heated to steam at 125C. For water, the specific heats are cice = 2.093 J/gC, cwater = 4.186 J/gC, and csteam = 2.009 J/gC. The enthalpy changes are Hfusion = -335.5 J/g and Hvaporization = 2....
Hardness
Path: Texas >> ASE >> 324L Spring, 2008
Description: Hardness Testing B - type Hardness Yield Stress UTS Steel CRS 57.2 92359 HRS 53.5 43274 Aluminum T351 44.9 52.87 Annealed 15.5 14.94 30min 47.5 47.27 2hr 80.5 60.06 6hr 52.5 68.91 24hr 76.2 66.17 C-type Martinsite 15min 30min 1hr 2hr 4hr 97750 70588...
spreadsheet
Path: Texas >> ASE >> 324L Spring, 2008
Description: Time 0 50 200 400 600 800 1000 slope at 500 slope at 700 slope at 900 creep rate n logB B 3000 0.0001 0.02 0.028 0.03 0.031 0.033 0.035 0.000005 0.00001 0.00001 8.33333E-06 2.674 -6.511 3.083E-07 5000 0.000166667 0.045 0.053 0.055 0.058 0.062 0.065...
data
Path: Texas >> ASE >> 324L Spring, 2008
Description: Time(s) 18.201 18.401 18.6 19 19.201 19.401 19.6 19.801 20 20.201 20.401 20.6 20.8 21 21.201 21.401 21.6 21.8 22 22.201 22.401 22.6 22.8 23 23.201 23.401 23.6 23.801 24 24.201 24.401 24.6 24.8 25.001 25.201 25.401 25.6 25.8 26 26.201 26.401 26.6 26.8...
jupiter_moons_hge5000
Path: Penn State >> ASTRO >> 011 Fall, 2007
Description: Moons of Jupiter: Data Recording for Moon 1, Page 1 of 5 Instructions: 1. Save this Excel file as jupiter_moons_userid.xls. For example if your user ID is xyz123, your file should be saved as jupiter_moons_xyz123.xls. 2. Click on one of the moons in ...
Midterm 2 Solutions 07'
Path: Michigan State University >> CSE >> 131 Spring, 2008
Description: Grade for. Points on Midterm 2 Points on NutsAndBolts Points on YearsToDouble Points on DeepestPoint <Ryan Michael Emmorey> 81 27 29 25 NutsAndBolts Category Specific Point find used correctly Indexing done correctly Correct array entries changed S...
Midterm2 solution 06'
Path: Michigan State University >> CSE >> 131 Spring, 2008
Description: Grade for. Points on Midterm 1 Points on Prob 1 Points on Prob 2 Points on Prob 3 80.5 32 25 23.5 Problem 1 Category Specific Point Find used correctly Values set correctly Median found correctly Index of rows with salary > median found Rows <= med...
Midterm 1 Solutions 07'
Path: Michigan State University >> CSE >> 131 Spring, 2008
Description: Grade for. Points on Midterm 1 Points on Prob 1 Points on Prob 2 Points on Prob 3 Points on Prob 4 <Ryan Michael Emmorey> 100 36 20 22 22 Problem 1 Category Specific Point Colon operator (or linspace) used correctly Linspace format correct Inputs i...
textbook errata
Path: USC >> EE >> EE 577b Spring, 2008
Description: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 3ed John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson Errata for the 4th Printing Chapter Front Cover Page # Description xxiv xxv xxviii Email address is \"ca3bugs@mkp.com\" The email address is listed on the 6th ...
ShakespeareFinalEssay
Path: Wisconsin >> ENGL >> 220 Fall, 2007
Description: Shakespeare Final Essay December 15, 2007 Othello Iago uses his cleverness in convincing Othello that Desdemona is cheating on him. Othello has strong trust in the woman he loves when the idea of cheating is first mentioned and undermines his instinc...
Lecture Notes for US History
Path: Wisconsin >> HIST >> 101 Fall, 2007
Description: History Notes 1607 1620 1630 1763 1776 3/6/2007 1:03:00 PM - There was a long term transformation in which people moved from colonies of transplanted Englishmen to provinces of Americans The transformation can be broken down into a long and short t...
Evidence-ND
Path: Wisconsin >> LAW >> 801 Fall, 2007
Description: Compiled Evidence Notes I. INTRODUCTION TO TRIAL FRE 102, 104, 103 How the law of evidence fits in: the courtroom is like a box and the law of evidence determines how it gets filled during the trial. Two keys: role of the parties & the jury. Adver...
Chemcheatsheet
Path: Wisconsin >> CHEM >> 561 Fall, 2007
Description: Prelim 1 (Wks 1-6) Significant Figures Counting: 1. All nonzero digits are significant. 2. Zeroes to the left of the first nonzero digit are not significant. 3. Zeroes at the end of a number that includes a decimal point are significant. Addition an...
Chapter 9 Textbook Solutions
Path: Wisconsin >> MATH >> 221 Fall, 2007
Description: SSM: Linear Algebra Section 9.1 Chapter 9 9.1 1. x(t) = 7e5t , by Fact 9.1.1. 3. P (t) = 7e0.03t , by Fact 9.1.1. 5. y(t) = -0.8e0.8t, by Fact 9.1.1. 7. x-2 dx = dt -x-1 = t + C 1 - x = t + C, and -1 = 0 + C, so that 1 -x = t - 1 x(t) = 1 1-t ; ...
Study Guide for Bio Midterm 1
Path: Wisconsin >> BIOL >> 151 Spring, 2008
Description: Biology (Underlines and bold) Terms Lecture 14: Origin of life (26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 26.4) 4.6 billion years ago When Earth was formed, along with the rest of the solar system Protobionts Aggregates of abiotically produced molecules surrounded by a memb...
Problem Set #5 Solutions
Path: Wisconsin >> ME >> 361 Fall, 2007
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EconSheetExam2
Path: Wisconsin >> ECON >> 302 Fall, 2007
Description: Probability of an event is its long-run relative frequency; Must be legitimate 0 P 1 & sum of set of P\'s = 1 Event combination of outcomes For any random phenomenon, each attempt (or trial) generates an outcome (Discrete distinct values / Continu...
ArtHistoryNotes
Path: Wisconsin >> ARTH >> 201 Fall, 2007
Description: All Compiled ART History Notes 8/29/2007 2:04:00 PM Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means \"image writing\", or pai...
formal lab data
Path: Texas >> EM >> 319 Spring, 2008
Description: experimental f 100 140 190 220 330 450 500 530 560 600 620 640 660 677 700 740 780 820 900 1000 theoretical f 100 140 190 220 330 450 500 530 560 600 620 640 660 677 700 740 780 820 900 1000 w R 628.3185 879.6459 1193.805 1382.301 2073.451 2827.433 3...

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