Evolution
You should know the following:
- All the main characters and their beliefs about evolution
- Lamarck
- Darwin
- Malthus
- The following concepts and how they relate to evolution
- Convergence - Analogy
- Divergence - Homology
- Adaptive radiation
- Industrial melanism
- Plate Tectonics
- Continental Drift
- The origins of Life
- Heterotroph Hypothesis
- Know its foundations
- How it supports the theory of evolution
- evidences to prove it
- Volcanic activity
- Miller's experiment
- Spontaneous generation vs. Biogenesis
Know the players of each.
- Von Helmont
- Redi
- Needham
- Spallinzani
- Pasteur
- The final proof that dispelled the idea of spontaneous generation.
IV.Taxonomy
- Linneaus' system of classification
- relationships of each of the taxa to one another.
- basis upon which organisms were named.
- The bases of modern day classification
- structure
- similarities with DNA/amino acids/proteins