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Bio222 - Lecture-00 Intro and Logistics - Key PDF
Bio222 - Lecture-00 Intro and Logistics - Key PDF
– This time
Bio 222: • A Brief Overview of Evolutionary Biology
Evolution • Course outline and logistics
• Pretest
Professor – Next time
Daniel E. Bunker • Chapter 1. An Overview of Evolutionary Biology
• Chapter 2. Early Evolutionary Ideas and
Darwin’s Insight
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What is Evolution? What is Evolution?
• What is evolution? • Macroevolution
– Gradual change over time – Speciation and
biological radiations
• What is Evolution? (aka biological evolution)
– Hawaiian
– Change in the properties of groups of honeycreepers
organisms (populations and species) • Microevolution
over the course of generations
– Evolution in bill size
– Changes in allele (gene) frequencies in a the Akekee
population over time • Microevolutionary
processes lead to
macroevolutionary
changes
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Why do we study Evolution? Why do we study Evolution?
• To improve crops and agriculture • To understand and conserve the
– Artificial selection environment and natural resources
– Genetic engineering – Preservation of biological diversity
– Preserving species and genetic diversity
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Required materials
• Text: Evolution, by
Bergstrom and
Dugatkin, 2nd
Logistics Edition
– ISBN-13:
978-0-393-92592-0, Norton
& Co
– Note that they offer the text
as a more affordable eBook
• iClicker1 or iClicker2
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iClicker Quizzes
• We will use iClickers • In-class iClicker quizzes
regularly in Evolution – unannounced
for participation and • Moodle quizzes
quizzes – One for each chapter and associated lecture
• Get an iClicker!! • Quizzes open 5 days before the lecture
• Register it on Moodle • Quizzes close at the start of the lecture
• Physical iClicker only • You can attempt each quiz twice, best score counts
- not the app • 60 minutes for each attempt
– Quizzes for the first 3 chapters close at 2:30
• We will start using
on Tuesday!!!
iClickers on
Thursday, January 24! – READ THE BOOK AND TAKE THE QUIZ
BEFORE THE LECTURE!!
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Course webpage:
Contact and Office Hours
Moodle (moodle.njit.edu)
• Prof. Daniel Bunker
• You must have an NJIT UCID to log into
• Office hours: Moodle. If you are matriculated at NJIT you
– Thursdays, 1:30 - 2:30 pm should already have a UCID. If you are a
– By appointment via email Rutgers student you may already have one.
• Office location: Check here to find out or request one:
https://ist.njit.edu/ucid/
– 337B CKB
• Phone:
– (973) 642-7537
• Email:
– dbunker@njit.edu
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Academic Integrity Grading
• You are expected to abide by the NJIT Code of
Student Conduct <https://www5.njit.edu/doss/ Participation 10%
policies/conductcode/index.php> and the NJIT
University Code on Academic Integrity Quizzes and Workshops 20%
<https://www5.njit.edu/policies/sites/policies/
files/academic-integrity-code.pdf>, which you Exam 1 15%
agreed to do upon entering NJIT. Read these
documents!
Exam 2 15%
• I will not tolerate cheating – it is my Exam 3 15%
responsibility to protect my students from
cheaters and I will do so. Cheating during Final exam 25%
exams will not be tolerated, nor will any form
of plagiarism.
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PART I: Overview, History of Evolutionary
thinking, and phylogenetic trees
An Overview of Evolutionary
Tues 22-Jan Read B&D Ch. 1
Biology
Early Evolutionary Ideas and Read B&D Ch. 1
Thurs 24-Jan
Darwin’s Insight and 2
Course Outline Tues 29-Jan Natural Selection
Workshop 1:
Read B&D Ch. 3
Thurs 31-Jan Review
Natural selection
Phylogeny and Evolutionary
Tues 5-Feb Read B&D Ch. 4
History
Thurs 7-Feb Inferring Phylogeny Read B&D Ch. 5
Tues 12-Feb Workshop 2: Phylogenies Review
Transmission Genetics and
Thurs 14-Feb Read B&D Ch. 6
Sources of Genetic Variation
Guest Lecture:
Tues 19-Feb
Dr. Phil Barden
Thurs 21-Feb Exam 1 Study
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Tues 5-Mar Workshop 3: Gene.c driJ Review Thurs 4-Apr Species and Specia.on Read B&D Ch. 14
Thurs 14-Mar Workshop 4: Heritability Review Thurs 11-Apr Sex and Sexual Selec.on Read B&D Ch. 16
The Origin and Evolu.on of Early
Tues 26-Mar Read B&D Ch. 11
Life Tues 16-Apr Exam 3 Study
Thurs 28-Mar Exam 2 Study
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PART IV: Evolutionary Interactions
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