Evolution
Wings in bats and wings in birds is an example of what?
Analogous structures
What is differential reproductive success?
Increased reproduction by best adapted individuals
What type of limiting factor is the availability of water, shelter, and other resources?
Density-dependent
What is the all of the alleles in a population?
Gene pool
What is the monarch butterfly’s favored host plant?
Milkweed
Would genetic drift likely have a larger effect on a small population or a large population?
A small population
What are sources of variation?
Mutations, crossing over, random combination of sperm and egg
What is intraspecific competition?
Competition within a species
What effect does the bottleneck effect have on genetic diversity?
Decreased diversity
Ulaanbaatar is the capital of which country?
Mongolia
Grey moths camouflage better in a forest than black or white moths. What type of selection will this lead to?
Stabilizing
Who originally wrote about the children's land of Narnia?
C.S. Lewis
Sexual dimorphism in animals is usually the result of what type of selection?
Sexual selection
What is the difference between natural and artificial selection?
Environment selects traits vs humans select traits
In what European country is the headquarters for the World Health Organization?
Switzerland
What was wrong with Lamarack's theory of evolution?
Acquired traits cannot be inherited
The prevalence of Huntington's disease in descendants of Dutch immigrants to South Africa is a result of what effect?
Founder effect
The prevalence of the cystic fibrosis allele in a population is 20%. If the population is in hardy weinberg equilibrium, what percentage of people actually have cystic fibrosis?
4%
What are the conditions of Hardy Weinberg equilibrium?
random mating, no mutations, no natural selection, no gene flow, large population size
Traits favored by natural selection must have what two characteristics?
advantageous and heritable