Evolution 1
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100

A change in the DNA sequence

What is a mutation?
100

How well an organism is able to survive and reproduce in its environment 

What is fitness?
100

This person wrote On the Origin of Species after a long voyage to the Galapagos Islands

Who is Charles Darwin?

100

Preserved remains of ancient organisms

What are fossils?

100
The concept that organisms that are best suited to their environment will survive and reproduce

What is natural selection?

200

A heritable trait that helps an organism better survive and reproduce in their environment

What is an adaptation?

200

When humans breed organisms for specific features

What is artificial selection?

200

An organism's adaptation to blend into an environment and stay undetected

What is camouflage?

200

In a dark forest, which peppered moth would survive?

What is a dark peppered moth?

200

A change in a species population distribution where traits towards the average are favored, and extreme traits provide a disadvantage.

What is stabilizing selection?

300

The whale's pelvic bones


What is vestigial structure?

300

Has similar functions but different structures and do not share a common ancestor

What are analogous structures?

300

An organism's unique sequence of DNA, usually a combination of two alleles.

What is genotype?

300

The expression of an organism's genes (observable characteristics)

What is phenotype?

300

Has similar bone structures and a common ancestor


What are homologous structures?

400

A decline in genetic variation when a small group becomes separated from a larger population


What is the founder effect?

400

When a species separates into 2 groups that are geographically isolated from each other, creating 2 separate species


What is Geographical (allopatric speciation) isolation?

400

A sharp decline in a population's genetic variation due to outside forces or random events such has hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc.


What is the bottleneck effect?

400

A change in population distribution of a species where one extreme trait is favored over the average

What is directional selection?

500

The evolutionary diversification of a single ancestral line where organisms display different adaptations in response to different selection pressures

What is adaptive radiation?

500

A change in population distribution where two extreme traits are favored over the average, often a precursor to speciation. 

What is disruptive selection?

500

The process where organisms that are not closely related develop similar traits as adaptations to similar environments


What is convergent evolution?

500

Organisms moving from a population of one species to a separate population of the same species, changing the allele frequency or introducing new traits


What is gene flow

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