CC 106 Final Study Guide
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Terms
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Enviornment
- With respect to an organism, defined as “surroundings.” The same physical
space can mean different enviornments for different organisms. Enviornmental variables
favorable for one species may be unfavorable for another.
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Abiotic Enviornment: Stability
- Over earth’s history, climate has maintined a degree of
stability that allowed liquid water—and life to persist.
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Abiotic Enviornment: Instability
- Over earth’s history, climate has also shown large
variability, wheter due to humans or not.
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Metastable Enviornment
- THe enviornment is stable as long as it is not subjected to major
disturbances.
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Chaos in the climatic enviornment
- The enviornment is not only a practical limit to
predictability of climate, but some level of
inherent
,
fundamental
unpredicatability.
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Butterfly effect
- An example of positive feedback instability, where tiny differences are
amplified.
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Ecosystem
- the totality of organisms and their enviornment, functioning together as a unit.
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Phenotypic Plasticity
- The capacity of a genotype to produce more than phenotype.
Example of traits with PP: Development, Morphology, Life history, physiology, behavior
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Role of the Enviornment on Phenotypic Plasticity
- Supplies raw materials, sets conditions
for development and conditions for natural selection.
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Enviornmental Heterogeneity
- The evniornment is diverse in character and content. Leads
to phenotypic plasticity.
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Reaction Norm
- the set of phenotypes produced by a genotype across a range of
enviornments.
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Enviornmental Affects on Development
- The envionment affects developments through
Inevitable Direct Effects
; i.e. Temperature affecting rates of metabolic and developmental
processes. And through
adaptive desponses to enviornmental conditions
; phenotypes
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Inevitable Direct Effects on Development
- The conditions of the enviorntment directly
affect development; i.e. Temperature affecting rates of metabolic and developmental
processes.
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Adaptive Responses in Development
– Phenotype changes in response to particular changes
in enviornment.
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Functional Trade Off in Phenotype Variation
- Different phenotypes serve different
functions; i.e. The shape of a conch will change to make it less suseptible to a certain type of
predator. (
Round shell is crush resistant, long shell is entry-resistant).
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Allocation of Resources in Phenotype Variation
- Different phenotypes require allocation
of resources for different uses. i.e. a phenotype will have little to no protection from predation
but it will be easy to make and resources will be available for reproduction or it will have
good protection but be hard to make and have limited resources for reproduction.
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Organisms’ Affect on their Enviornment
- organisms modulate the temporal availability of

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