f7 Study Guide #1 Diaz de Leon due:

You won't know all of this right away, but don't wait until the last night to begin. I recommend you work in groups. You may turn in one answer set with all your names on it. Remember group work allows you to collaborate on part of the first exam! Do NOT divide the work up to do separately or you won't learn all the material for the exams. It's the process, not the product that counts here! Also save a copy of the work to study from. I use the homework heavily when I write exams.

Vocabulary:

phylogeny systematics hierarchy falsifiable

homeostasis induction convergence

deduction hypothesis mutation Natural selection

fitness genetic genetic variation

evolution

1. Outline the steps of the scientific method.

2. How would you define life?

3. Briefly describe the evolutionary process. (Don't confuse the terms evolution and natural selection.)

4. What is Natural Selection and how does it come about?

5. Write the latin name for the red abalone, "haliotis rufescens", in the correct form. Note underlining and capitalization.

6. Create a mnemonic for the 7 major taxonomic levels.