1 evolution part i bio 2215 oklahoma city community college dennis anderson
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Does the idea of evolution contradict a belief in God?
• Many scientists of all religious faiths believe in both.
• Some people feel evolution contradicts the literal interpretation of the Bible.
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Earths Position in the Universe
• 400 years ago the general public thought that the earth was the center of the universe– Sun revolves around
the earth
– The earth does not move
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Galileo and Corpernicus
• Demonstrated scientific evidence that the sun is at the center of our solar system and the earth moves around the sun
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Galileo and the Church
• Religious leaders felt the heliocentric theory (sun at the center) was a direct contradiction to the literal interpretation of the Bible
• Galileo found guilty of heresy
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Copernican System (Heliocentral Theory)
• Did not destroy peoples belief in God
• Public now accepts the overwhelming evidence for the heliocentric theory
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Natural Selection
• One mechanism of evolution
• Main concepts of natural selection– Overproduction of offspring– Inherited variation in offspring– Competition – Best adapted in a given environment survive
and reproduce to increase their kind• They are naturally selected
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Overproduction of Offspring
• Elephants (very slow reproductive rate)– If all the offspring of one elephant pair survive and all
their offspring survive then:• 750 years = 19,000,000 elephants• 1200 years = Enough elephants to cover the earth!
• Beetles– A handful that weighs 10 mg each– 82 weeks
• 61,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ton– The weight of the earth!
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Competition
• Since more individuals are born than can survive for an extended period of time, they compete for resources– Food– Living space– Mates
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Best adapted to a given environment are selected to survive
• Brown bears– Adapted to survive in
Oklahoma
• Polar bears– Adapted to survive in
Alaska
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Evolution is Change• Changing alleles in a population can
produce new species
• Dogs have evolved from wolves
• Man has artificially selected traits to produce the various dog breeds
• Nature uses natural selection and other mechanisms for evolution
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Scientific Disciplines That Give Evidence for Evolution
• Paleontology
• Comparative anatomy
• Biogeography
• Molecular biology
• Others
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Paleontology
• Study of fossils – Allows us to see
anatomical similarities between living species and organisms that lived in the past
– Allows us to see how life has changed over time
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• Whale evolultion
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Homeobox or HOX
• First discovered in fruit flies in 1983
• Later found in mice, man and other organisms
• Controls embryonic development of different body regions
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Evolution of New Body Plan
• Hox gene Ubx of crustacean mutated in lab
• Caused suppression of leg development
• Mechanism for evolution of insect body plan 400 MYA
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• Homeobox genes
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Comparing DNA
• Human DNA compared to:– Chimpanzee 99% same
– Gorilla 97.7% same
– Orangutan 96.3% same
– Another human 99.9% same
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Comparing Protein Sequences
• Many proteins in all of man are identical
• Organ transplants require similar proteins in the donor and the recipient– A sibling or parent is often the best source for
an organ transplant
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Which would be the closest protein match for an organ transplant?
Assuming all are alive and healthy.
• A persons father
• A persons great grandfather
• A persons 10th great grandfather
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Molecular Clock
• The further you go back in time, the more proteins (and DNA) are different.
• Differences in protein sequences and DNA can be used to estimate time when two species shared a common ancestor
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Cytochrome C
• Protein used to release energy from food
• 104 amino acids• 20 of the amino acids
occupy the same position in all eukaryotes
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Comparison of Human Cytochrome C
• 100 amino acids different in tuna fish
• 12 amino acids different in a horse
• 8 amino acids different in a kangaroo
• 1 amino acid different in a monkey
• Identical to chimpanzee
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Pattern of Evolution Originally Based on Fossil Record
• DNA comparisons confirm the same pattern
• Protein sequences confirm the same pattern
• 150 years of research by thousands of scientists demonstrate beyond doubt that life evolves.