differential reproductive success over multiple generations
What is evolutionary fitness
100
an alteration of the DNA that may or may not alter the function of a cell
What is a mutation
100
This disease also contributes an adaptation to mitigate malaria
What is sickle cell anemia?
100
A common primate practice that serves to both maintain hygiene and group social dynamics
What is grooming
100
The major pigment responsible for skin colour variation
What is melanin
200
The diversification of one founding species into multiple species and niches
What is adaptive radiation
200
a change in the frequency of a gene or a trait in a population over multiple generations
What is evolution
200
Though the presence of canines in humans is an ancestral trait, the reduction in canine size is characterized as this
What is a derived trait?
200
A type of vision shared by most primates
What is stereoscopic vision?
200
A conceptual framework for scientific inquiry
What is the scientific method
300
A breeding group of organisms of the same kind
What is a population
300
A change in the frequency of a gene in a population over time due to entirely random factors
What is genetic drift
300
Arboreal
What is the environment most living primates have adapted to living in?
300
The most common form of locomotion in prosimians
What is vertical clinging and leaping, or climbing
300
A short-term physiologic adaptation to stress
What is acclimation /acclimatization
400
a mathematical model suggesting that if there are not evolutionary pushes on a gene, the frequency of the alleles will remain the same
What is the Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium model
400
cell division in which a single cell divides to produce two identical daughter cells
What is mitosis
400
Hands and feet that are grasping
What is prehensile? (Primitive Trait)
400
The group of primates that have prehensile tails
What are New World Monkeys
400
The inability to digest the sugar found in milk
What is lactose deficiency or lactose intolerance
500
Structures that are similar because of common descent in two different organisms
What are homologous traits
500
Organelles in the cytoplasm of the cell where energy production for the cell takes place. Contains its own DNA
What are mitochondria
500
Brachiation
What is an adaptation for arboreal life?
500
The earliest primate-like mammals that evolved during the Paleocene - the most likely ancestral primate
What is the plesiadapiforms
500
a mode of natural selection in which an extreme phenotype is favored over other phenotypes, causing the allele frequency to shift over time in the direction of that phenotype.