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Method of breeding that allows only those organisms with desired characteristics to produce the next generation.
What is selective breeding?
100
Modern organisms evolved over a long period of time through decent from common ancestors
What is evolution?
100
Mutation, genetic recombination during sexual reproduction, and lateral gene transfer.
What are three sources of genetic variation?
100
A group of similar species
What does genus mean?
100
A scientist who studies fossils
What is a paleontologist?
200
Developed more than 800 varieties of plants in his lifetime.
Who is Luther Burbank?
200
Discovered the most important scientific theories.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
A molecular clock is used to....
How can researchers compare stretches of DNA to mark the passage of evolutionarily time?
200
Involuntary branch of a cladogram that includes a single ancestor and all it's descendants
What does clad mean?
200
Humans were created in this era
What is the Cenozoic era?
300
3 million fragments
How many fragments are in the human genome?
300
1831
When did Charles Darwin set sail on the HMS Beagle?
300
p2+2pq +q2 = 1
What is the equation for the Hardy- Weinberg principle?
300
Used in classification by telling the scientists how the species and their relationship changed
What are DNA sequences?
300
Event during which many species become extinct during a relatively short period of time.
What is mass extinction?
400
Since the late 1980's
When did the United States start using finger printing?
400
Any heritable characteristic that increase an organisms ability to survive and reproduce in it's environment
What is adaptation?
400
The formation of a new species
What is speciation?
400
Larger, more inclusive taxonomic category than a kingdom.
What does domain mean?
400
During the 1960's evidence that supported the endosymbiotic theory by....
Who is Lynn Margulis?
500
The exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell for an amount of time
What is a patent?
500
The study of the relationship between an organism and their environment
What is ecology
500
The number of times an allele occurs in a gene pool, compared to the total number of alleles in that pool for the same gene
What is allele frequency?
500
Domai consisting of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls that do not contain peptidoglicano; corresponds to the kingdom archaebacteria
What does archae mean?
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The evolution of a species by gradual accumulation of small genetic changes over long periods of time.
What is gradualism?