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Who is Charles Darwin?
Student that sits closest to the door?
Who is Natalie?
Selection that favors phenotypes that are either common (positive frequency-dependent selection) or rare (negative frequency-dependent selection).
What is Frequency-dependent Selection?
Phenotypic difference between a population's males and females.
What is Sexual Dimorphism?
The date of your vocab test
When is Tomorrow?
fraction of population variation that can be attributed to its genetic variance
What is Heritability?
This is the second step of the scientific method, where a scientist makes an educated guess
What is a Hypothesis?
trait that gives a truthful impression of an individual's fitness
What is a Honest Signal?
Student who sits closest to the markers
Who is Cadee?
Broader scale evolutionary changes that scientists see over paleontological time.
What is Macroevolution?
Study of how selective forces change the allele frequencies in a population over time.
What is Population Genetics?
Where you can find the Blooket for Vocab review?
Where is Canvas?
Gradual geographic variation across an ecological gradient.
What is a Cline?
Distribution of phonotypes in a population.
What is Population Variation?
The student who sits the furthest away from the door
Who is Brody?
The items used from yesterdays "Bird Beak" Lab
What are Forks,Spoons,Knives,Tweezers, & Skittles?
When individuals tend to mate with those who are phenotypically similar to themselves.
What is Assortative Mating?
Miss Persinger's favorite animal
What is a Horse?
Individual's ability to survive and reproduce relative to the rest of the population.
What is Relative Fitness?
Overarching evolutionary paradigm that took shape by the 1940s and scientists generally accept today.
What is Modern Synthesis?
Flow of alleles in and out of a population due to the individual or gamete migration.
What is Gene Flow?
The weasel-like animal that is a threat to the Kiwi
What is a Stout?
All the alleles that the individuals in the population carry.
What is the Gene Pool?
The "beak" that collected the most skittles in yesterday's lab
What are the Spoons?
This group in an experiment is used as a standard for comparison.
What is the control group?