FINAL EXAM
Take-home
final exam – please hand in your answer by April 24, 2006 at 4:45 pm.
For a total of
100 points, your answer is to be based on lectures, student paper presentations,
Harborne's textbook and relevant literature.
Please word
process your answer and hand it in with all source citations. Please illustrate your answer
with examples and aim to integrate
information that we
have discussed in class, rather than target single lectures or presentations
for answers.
Question
(100 points):
Why does the course text on "Ecological
Biochemistry"
4th edition by J.B. Harborne (1993) emphasize "coevolution"
so strongly?
What does Harborne mean by "coevolution?" Where did this emphasis start and is it
justified?
Suggested
starting bibliography:
Ehrlich, P.R., and P.H. Raven.
1964. Butterflies and plants: a
study in coevolution. Evolution
18: 586-608.
Janzen, D.H. 1980. When is it
coevolution. Evolution
34(3): 611-612.
Berenbaum, M. 1983. Coumarins and caterpillars: a case for
coevolution. Evolution
37: 163-179.