| 1 |
Ecology |
| A |
Fundamental concepts: Abiotic and biotic components; scales (population, species, community,
ecosystems, biomes); niches and habitats.
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| B |
Population ecology: Population growth rates (density dependent/independent); metapopulation
ecology (colonization, persistence, extinction, patches, sources, sinks); age-structured populations.
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| C |
Interactions: Types (mutualism, symbiosis, commensalism, competition, parasitism, predation, etc);
ecophysiology (physiological adaptations to abiotic environment); prey-predator interactions (LotkaVoltera equation etc)
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| D |
Community ecology: Community assembly, organization and succession; species richness,
evenness and diversity indices, species-area relationships; theory of island biogeography
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| E |
Ecosystems structure and function: trophic levels and their interactions; nutrient cycles; primary
and secondary productivity |
| 2 |
Evolution |
| A |
History of Evolutionary thought: Lamarckism; Darwinism; Modern Synthesis
Fundamentals: Variation; heritability; natural selection; fitness and adaptation; types of selection
(stabilizing, directional, disruptive).
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| B |
Fundamentals: Variation; heritability; natural selection; fitness and adaptation; types of selection
(stabilizing, directional, disruptive)
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| C |
Diversity of life: Origin and history of life on earth; diversity and classification of life; systems of
classification (cladistics and phenetics)
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| D |
Life history strategies: Allocation of resources; tradeoffs; r/K selection; semelparity and iteroparity
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| E |
Interactions: Co-evolution (co-adaptations, arms race, Red Queen hypothesis, co-speciation); preypredator interactions (mimicry, crypsis, etc)
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| F |
Population and Quantitative genetics: Origins of genetic variation; Mendelian genetics; HardyWeinberg equilibrium; drift; selection (one-locus two-alleles model); population genetic structure
(panmixia, gene flow, FST); polygenic traits; gene-environment interactions (phenotypic plasticity);
heritability
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| G |
Molecular evolution and phylogenetics: Neutral theory; molecular clocks; rates of evolution;
phylogenetic reconstruction; molecular systematicsMolecular evolution and phylogenetics: Neutral theory; molecular clocks; rates of evolution;
phylogenetic reconstruction; molecular systematics
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| H |
Macroevolution: Species concepts and speciation; adaptive radiation; convergence; biogeography
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