Constitutively active Ras proteins (RasD) 

Replacement of the normal glycine 12 with any other amino acid (except proline) blocks the functional binding of GAP proteins and in essence “locks” Ras in the active GTP-bound state.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

James Hutton and Charles Lyell- Uniformitarianism

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Chevalier de Lamarck- Inheritance of acquired characteristics

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Neo-Lamarckism- August Weismann cut off the tails of mice for many generations and showed that this mutilation had no effect on the tail length of their descendants

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Alfred Russel Wallace- Who was collecting specimens in the Malay Archipelago, had independently conceived of natural selection.

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Darwin’s evolutionary theory- Evolution as such is the simple proposition that the characteristics of organisms change over time.

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Darwin’s evolutionary theory- Common descent