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Vocab!
Vocab cont.
100
Developed the theory of natural selection along side Charles Darwin?
Who is Wallace?
100
All the genes in the population.
What is gene pool?
100
Comes from the fossil record.
What is evidence for evolution?
100
Changes in DNA causes changes in allelic frequency.
What is mutation?
100
When the earth develops and life begins.
What is precambrian periods?
200
Natural selection increases a species.
What is fitness?
200
Different species evolve to have similar traits because they live in similar environments.
What is convergent evolution?
200
Proved spontaneous generation.
Who are Redi and Pasteur?
200
Selection in which the organisms at one end of the spectrum or the other of genetic variations is selected for this.
What is directional selection?
200
Structures that have different mature forms but develop from the same embryonic tissues.
What is homologous structures?
300
3 things that are considered evidence of evolution.
What is adaptation, fossils and anatomy?
300
The allelic frequency population doesn't change.
What is genetic equilibrium?
300
No membrane bound organelle.
What is prokaryote?
300
When members of each species compete regularly to obtain food living space and other necessities of life.
What is struggle for existence?
300
Selection in which the organisms at one end of the spectrum and the other of genetic variations is selected for this.
What is stabilizing selection?
400
The ship that Charles Darwin sailed on.
What is the HMS Beagle?
400
Percent of dominant compared to recessive alleles.
What is allelic frequency?
400
First true cells (some photosynthetic and some chemosynthetic).
What is anaerobic
400
When organs of many animals are so reduced in size that they are just traces of homologous organs of other species.
What is vestigial organs?
400
Theory that species don't evolve unless there is major catastrophe.
What is punctuated equilibrium?
500
Slowly changing with each generation.
What is evolution?
500
Allelic frequency changes because of this.
What is genetic drift?
500
Evolved into dinos!
What is amphibians?
500
As a flower evolves, it can cause its pollinator to evolve.
What is convergent evolution?
500
Allelic frequency change because of individual immigrating and emigrating.
What is gene flow?