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Anthro 1 Poem/Song Hall of Fame, Part 1, Fall 2013
Jillian Itow
Microevolution
When small things change
It's microevolution.
With this you can mate.
Charles Darwin made
Natural selection cool.
Survive, the fittest!
Gene mutation happens.
Hair color, skin tone, and
eyes
Are all affected.
New people came in,
Caused variation increase;
Gene flow happened.
Genetic drift caused
Variation to decrease:
Bottlenecking killed.
Only humans care
For assortative mating.
"Race" does not exist.
Pearl Guerrero
Processes of Evolution
Kareli Espinoza
Evolutionary Processes
Evolution is
Five processes working to
Change alleles through time.
Allele frequencies
In microevolution
Do change over time.
Reproductively
Fit, natural selection:
Those who are, survive.
Favorable traits
For natural selection,
Like Darwin's finches.
Mutation is change
In DNA; it may be
Good, neutral, or grave.
Change in DNA,
Increases variation:
It is mutation.
Genes flow, DNA
Exchanged, connecting people
Variation grows.
Genetic drift, change
Randomly the alleles in
The population.
Example, not a
Random sample, sampling slip
Founder principle.
Nonrandom mating,
People’s preference, only
For some ethnic groups.
Daniel Agosto
The Tarsier
The tarsier, an odd-looking creature,
Recognized by its enormous eyes,
Is nocturnal, a special feature.
It likes eating insects, such as flies.
It’s a haplorhine, dry-nosed mammal,
Only seen in Southeast Asian islands.
Its bat-like ears are quite abnormal.
It lives in tree branches, not highlands.
It has two grooming claws on each foot.
Its eye socket is partially closed.
Its tail allows it to stay put,
And its size keeps it from being exposed.
Its tibia and fibula combined,
It’s a shame its population declined.
Migrate new alleles
Into a population:
It is called gene flow.
Two examples are:
Bottlenecks, founder effects:
Here's genetic drift.
Non-random mating:
Phenotypes are essential,
Must be preference.
Anthro 1 Poem/Song Hall of Fame, Part 1, Fall 2013
Daniella Andrade
Sedimentary Street
(To the tune of “Sesame Street”)
Death and decay
With factors for fossils to stay.
We learn about this through taphonomy.
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sedimentary Street?
Volcanic lakes
Keepin' the fossils in place.
That's how we found Darwinius
Isn't it neat?
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sedimentary Street?
Clay and slate,
Layers found to equate
The time the creature lived
With stratigraphy.
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sedimentary Street?
It's a dating technique to find
All the layers to organize time
With older fossils below
All the older be-River way,
Lining the bones up straight.
Small ones lost
But all the rest are neat.
Can you tell me how to get ,
How to get to Sedimentary Street?
Justine Tran
Protein Synthesis-ville
(To the tune of “Margaritaville” by Jimmy
Buffet)
Ribosome starting,
DNA charting.
Protein synthesis needs mRNA.
First get adenine
Match it with thymine;
Remember uracil gets in the way.
Messenger RNA copies the DNA.
Translation then needs to happen next.
All of these genes must replicate by all means;
Mutations can happen and vex.
Then transfer RNA
And anticodons stay,
Combining all the complimentary bases.
This protein creation
Is our life’s foundation,
Between all the DNA laces.
Amino acids connected in peptide bonds,
Polypeptide chains are the final result.
This is the end and there’s no need to pretend,
Synthesis is no form of occult.