4.1
This rule is used to determine the extent a population is evolving.
What is The Hardy-Weinberg rule?
Darwin defined evolution as descent with __________.
What is modification?
Humans first appeared on the molecular clock at what time?
What is 11:59pm?
What are Vestigial Structures?
2pq is the frequency of
What is Heterozygotes?
What is natural selection?
Evolutionary lineages that persist for long periods without change.
What are Living Fossils?
A person who studies nature.
What is a Naturalist?
This leads to the LOSS of genetic diversity
What is genetic drift?
Selection that favors ONE extreme phenotype
What is Directional Selection?
______ dating is used due to its shorter half-life of 75,000 years.
What is Carbon Dating?
True or False?
Scientists use only one method to study evolution.
What is False?
Balanced polymorphism, such as sickle cell anemia, is the result of
What is a Heterozygous Advantage?
Sexual selection in which mate is chosen by the opposite gender.
Method of grouping organisms by shared traits into clades.
What is cladistics?
This person proposed a failed hypothesis on evolution before Darwin.
Who is Jean Baptiste Lamarck?
Speciation that occurs when a geographic barrier leads to isolation.
What is allopatric speciation?
Features that do NOT indicate shared ancestry related in function
What is Analogous Features?
Species that diverged before the lineage of a group
What is an Outgroup?
The ability of an organism to survive AND reproduce.
What is relative fitness?