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The following study questions are designed to help you think about the lecture material. They are not comprehensive questions. Exam material is NOT limited to the topics in study questions and will not follow this format.

Lecture 1 ( Jan 20, 2011)

1- What is speciation?

2- What are three ways relationships among organisms can be depicted or described?

3- What are the three main questions evolutionary biologists study?

4- What is homology?

5- There are only a few thousand described species of bacteria, however, there are over a million estimated species. What type of information is allowing scientists to describe more species of bacteria than at any other time before?

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Lecture 2 ( Jan 25, 2011)