Oooo, looking forward to this!
How come you chose evo eco?
Prokaryotes | Eukaryotes |
No membrane bound organelles | Yes membrane bound organelles |
single celled | can be multicellular |
big circle of DNA plus plasmids | linear chromosomes |
Reproduction is asexual (only) | Reproduction can be asexual or sexual |
Unfortunately those last couple posts slipped under my radar and I missed them when they were posted so I am a bit late on the reply.Thank you! I'm glad to hear it :)
Thanks for sharing this evo eco content - I have personally found it very interesting to read both becuase of the content itself but also due to the rather engaging way you lead us through the topics. While I did get lost occasioanlly on a bit of content, overall I think you did a great job of breaking the topics down. The case studies were particularly interesting for me - when learning evolution in unit 3/4 bio I think I didn't give as much attention to learning examples and looking for proof of different evolutionary ideas which is something I think is not only important but makes the content a bit more meanigful.
I think that this thread would have been a great resource to have while studying 3/4 bio. While bits of this evo eco thread are within the course and help reinforce such content, I think the most valuable thing I got out of this was adding depth to my fundamental understanding of how evolution works and how to go about talking about it. Hopefully next year's bio students can discover this thread and use it to compliment and improve their understanding of evolution.I hope so! I'll likely be making evolution content for QCE & since that goes more in-depth than VCE it should be useful for VCE students too.
Interms of what else I'd like you to go over from the list, the things that jumped out at me mostly were the things that i have read a bit about, but don't really grasp all that well. These are:
- sympatric speciation
- Interactions (particulalry altruism and about how group selection is poorly supported)
- how synonymous base changes can create change and the evolutionary explanation for why we keep all this 'non essential' DNA around
- mitochondrial-nuclear interactions in evolution
There were alot of things in that list though that I just completly didn't understand haha. So if there are anythings that you are particulalrly passionate about I would love to hear them.
Don't feel obliged to explain the above things I have listed though.
Thanks again for putting in this effort!