Awesome adaptations
This group of photosynthetic organisms became close friends with cyanobacteria.
What are the green algae?
What is Azolla (fern)? also ok.
This is a system of naming things.
What is nomenclature?
This number describes the age of our planet.
What is 4.5 billion years? (or more, ok too)
These caused tumult in ideas about species in the 18th century.
This is an example of a reproductive barrier.
What is geographic isolation?
What is ecological isolation?
What is post-zygotic isolation?
A way to examine clinal variation in plants.
What is a common garden experiment?
(Transplant experiment ok too)
This is an example of a phenotype that is not adaptive and evolved when atmospheric oxygen was low.
What is rubisco?
or
What is C3 photosynthesis?
This field of study was highly influential to Darwin and Wallace in their development of evolutionary theory.
What is economics? (Malthus!)
This was developed by Hutton and Lyell to explain how gradual processes change the Earth.
What is uniformitarianism?
Geographic barriers can lead to this type of change in a population.
What is allopatric speciation?
This process can cause instant speciation.
What is polyploidy or genome doubling?
This Roman naturalist (or book) heavily influenced early classification for more than 1000 years.
Who is Dioscorides?
What is De Materia Medica?
These are the two sources of genetic variation.
The accumulation of genetic changes in populations of living organisms over many generations.
What is the theory of evolution?
Genetically distinct populations.
What are ecotypes?
These organisms have sporic lifecycles and commonly reproduce asexually.
What are plants?
(Some protists do this too, also ok, but PLANTS is best answer.)
An error in meiosis might cause this in a population.
What is autopolyploidy?
Fitness is highly dependent upon this.
What is the environment?
Individuals with more of this are more likely to contribute to the next generation.
What is fitness?
These traits determine survival near mines or serpentine soils.
What is heavy metal/metal/copper/zinc tolerance?
This is a term that means "land plants".
What are the embryophytes?
Three of the conditions necessary for evolution.
What are
1. Traits variable.
2. Traits heritable.
3. Traits determine reproduction.
4. Subset of population reproduces.
This determines the fate of new alleles entering a population.
What is the breeder's equation?
R = h * S
OR What is heritability and selection pressure?
In most conditions populations are in, natural selection will do this to genetic diversity.
What is it will REDUCE genetic diversity?
When an individual migrates to a new habitat with lots of niches, this could happen.
What is an adaptive radiation?
(Schiedea, Silverswords, Penstemon, etc.)