Fitness and selection
Natural Selection and HW
Other modes of evolution
Evolutionary Relationships
Speciation
100

Being able to survive and reproduce

What is fitness?

100

This occurs because traits are often heritable and organisms compete to survive

What is natural selection?

100

When alleles are transferred between populations due to immigration

What is gene flow?

100

These two diagrams show relatedness, and the second also incorporates time

What are cladograms and phylogenetic trees?

100

This is required to have two different species

What is reproductive isolation?

200

Give and example of an organism that is more fit

I'll decide

200

When multiple niches are available and organisms evolve separately to fill those niches to avoid competition

What is adaptive radiation?

200

When a cataclysmic event occurs the remaining allele frequencies are different than they were before the event 

What is bottleneck effect?

200

This represents speciation events and common ancestors

What is a node?

200

When each sub-species of a bird of paradise must perform their dances precisely or they will not get to mate.

What is an example of behavioral isolation?

300

An environmental factor that impacts whether an organism can survive and reproduce. ______________ pressure

What is selective pressure?

300

The two equations of HW equilibrium involve these terms and each of them mean . . .

What is p for dominant allele frequency, q for recessive alle frequency, p2 for homozygous dominant frequency, 2pq for heterozygous frequency, and q2 for homozygous recessive frequency?

300

When environments are similar they lead to the development of similar traits in two different lineages and the traits are called this

What is convergent evolution and analogous traits?

300

This lineage is the least related member of the clade

What is the outgroup?

300

The fur tree's pollen cannot physically attach to the pine tree's cone

What is an example of mechanical isolation?

400

When the extremes of a trait are both equally selected for, this type of selection occurs

What is disruptive selection?

400

If 30 out of 50 individuals have the dominant trait, how many are homozygous dominant assuming HW equilibrium?

7

400

These structures exist between organisms who share those types of ancestors

What are homologous traits and common ancestors?

400

These are the two most common categories of information to create cladograms

What are DNA (molecular data) and morphology (physical traits)

400

This keeps horses and donkeys from being considered the same species

What is hybrid sterility?

500

Give an example of stabilizing selection

(teacher discretion) 

500

 While pesticides (chemicals that kill insects on crops) are effective initially, researchers claim that the effectiveness of any one pesticide will be greatly reduced in as little as ten to fifteen years. What is an explanation that supports the claim that pesticides will eventually lose their effectiveness?

Something along the lines of: Insects that are naturally resistant to the pesticide will survive and reproduce more than the insects that are sensitive to the pesticide.

500

This is a number determined by the number of living offspring of one organism compared to the average number of living offspring for that population

What is relative/evolutionary fittness?

500

The bald eagle and alligator are alike in this way...

They both have a gizzard.

500

What is an experiment that could demonstrate how life originated?

(teacher discretion)

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