BIO1004S Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Provides detailed notes about the evolution section of the developmental and evolutionary biology course offered at UCT. The document summarises the Historical background behind evolution, the development of Darwin’s ideas about evolution the different lines of evidence supporting evolution, macro and microevolution, genetic drift and speciation, as well as modern uses for natural selection.

These notes summarise everything you need to know for the primates section of the second year evolutionary and developmental biology course offered at UCT. It summarises the different orders and suborders and distinguishing features of each order of primates, and lists the most important fossils and developments in bipedalism and skin colour variation.

Provides everything you need to know for the vertebrate/chordate section of the final evolutionary biology exam at UCT. Includes the distinguishing features of each group of chordates such as urochordates and Cephalochordates, Cranites, Gnathostomes, etc. up until mammals, with detailed notes about derived features of each group.

General Characteristics of Phylum, breakdown of subphylums. Includes reproductive cycles (with fully labelled diagrams) as well as expansion of Subphylum Classes with discussion of anatomy. Spiders, Millipedes, Crabs etc.

Summary of Cnidaria Characteristics, fully labelled diagrams and expansion on the 4 Main Classes of Cnidaria (Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Cubozoa & Anthozoa). Each of the classes has a characteristics list and a labelled diagram and explanation of various physical structures as well as examples of organisms in those classes we are well acquainted with. Also provides explanation of Cnidarian movement and Hydrosstatic Skeleton.

Provides an overview of Invertebrates and then focuses on Porifera Phylum. List of characteristics and distinguishes between the 3 Types (Asconoid, Syconoid and Leuconoid). Discusses Physiology, Feeding (Venturi Effect, Bernouli Effect), Fully labelled reproduction diagram and the structures of the Cnidaria body wall.

This document provides a comprehensive summary of microbe to plant phylogeny. A short summary of the evolutionary process of plants, adaptations required for plants to have moved from the ocean and colonise land and more.

Prokaryotes (Archaea and Bacteria). Tabular summary of the three domains of life. Labelled Bacteria Diagram and Tabular summary of the characteristics of the three domains of life.