Vocabulary
The I-think sketch drawing from Darwin is an example of what?
phylogenetic tree
Often called "the father of Evolution"
Who is Charles Darwin?
Hair color is an example of a _______inheritable trait.
What is a neutral inheritable trait?
A type of selection that is guided by selective pressures in the environment.
What is natural selection?
What is biogeography?
Geologists that developed a type of thinking called uniformitarianism.
Who are Lyell and Hutton?
A mutation in this code is necessary for producing variation among populations.
What is the genetic code (DNA)?
Another name for a type of selection that farmers use.
What is artificial selection?
a whales flipper that has digits, a humans tonsils or appendix, pelvic bones in a snake. (All examples of what?)
What are vestigial structures?
These two people developed their theories of evolution parallel to each other.
When the variation that is most favorable in the population increases the middle phenotype.
What is stabilizing selection?
An Adaptation must be what type of variation?
What is a helpful variation?
This person thought that if the human population grew unchecked, there wouldn't be enough food and living space for everyone.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
What is common ancestry?
When the natural selection that takes place favors two variation extremes versus the one original variation.
What is disruptive selection?
Fitness is AKA
What is differential reproductive success?
This person thought that organisms could acquire a trait during their lifetime and pass it on to their offspring.
Who is Lamarck?
3 conditions for natural selection to occur.
What are the struggle for existence, variation and adaptation, and survival of the fittest?
The graph moves to either the right or left in response to an environmental change that selects for a different variant.
What is directional selection?