1. Describe how the concept of "unintended consequences" applies to the story of the emergence of motility in bacteria. 

2.  What is meant by the eukaryotic "crown groups"?

3. Discuss the concept of homeostasis in terms of your understanding of 1) a thermostat and 2) the relationship between the economy and Alan Greenspan.

4. Explain what is meant by haploid and diploid and how the two cell types are generated.

5. What is the difference between vertical and horizontal gene flow?

6. What is the difference between a channel and a pump?  Which requires ATP for its operation? 

7. What is meant by saying a membrane is polarized, depolarized, and hyperpolarized?  Which ions move to depolarize and to hyperpolarize a nerve?

8. Describe how awareness works in a white blood cell.

9. Explain what is meant by saying that nerve cells communicate using "hormones up close" whereas the pancreas communicates using "hormones at a distance."

10. What's the difference between the 2 kinds of receptors carried by dendrites?

11. What is the relationship between protein synthesis and memory?

12. How do proteins in the fertilized egg "get things going" in embryology?

13. Explain the following statement:  Embryology evolves by conserving transcription factors and changing timing (heterochrony).

14. Explain how cell-cell interactions participate in embryology

15. How does the concept of epigenetics figure into the story of the OTX gene?

16. How does the concept of natural selection figure into patterns of development in the mammalian nervous system?

17. What does the story of the blind mole rat tell us about the properties of the mammalian brain?

18. What were the properties of the mammal from which the primate lineage descended?

19. What are the salient differences between the "replacement" model and the "trellis" model of Homo sapiens evolution?

20. In what ways are natural selection and sexual selection different?