Natural Selection
Population genetics
Fossil Record
Phylogeny
SURPRISE
100

Location where Charles Darwin conducted most of his well-known work

What is the Galapagos?

100

A group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area and interbreed to produce fertile offspring

What is a population?

100

The distribution of animals and plants geographically

What is biogeography?

100

A lineage that is the least closely related to the rest of the organisms 

What is an outgroup?

100

Dogs PEE to mark their DOMINANCE.

What is a way to remember that p represents the dominant allele frequency in Hardy-Weinberg problems?

200

A process in which individuals that have certain traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.

What is natural selection?

200

When floods, famine, fires, hurricanes, hunting, etc. result in some alleles becoming overrepresented, underrepresented, or absent.

What is the bottleneck effect?

200

How fossils are dated.

What is carbon-14 decay?

200

The most accurate source of data to use when constructing a cladogram.

What is DNA?

200

Darwin proposed the idea of this 3 word theory, which now is our modern definition of evolution.

What is descent with modification?

300

An organism’s ability to survive and reproduce

What is fitness?

300

When there is only one allele present for a particular locus in the population, thus decreasing genetic diversity.

What is a fixed allele?

300

Structures that are conserved even though they no longer have a use

What are vestigial structures?

300

This part of a cladogram represents a common ancestor.

What is a node?

300

Bottleneck effect and founder effect are examples of this.

What is genetic drift?

400

True or false: Individuals evolve. 

False: populations evolve

400

The movement of genes from one population to another population

What is gene flow?

400

The arm bones of many species (such as humans and whales) is an example of this.

What is a homologous structure?

400
This part of a cladogram represents the common ancestor of all the species. 

What is the root?

400

A type of model in which the average phenotype is selected against. Both phenotypic extremes have the highest fitness

What is disruptive selection?

500

A way to select for traits that are most desirable for humans.

What is artificial selection?

500

No mutations, random mating, no natural selection, extremely large population size, no gene flow.

What are the five conditions that must be met in Hardy Weinberg equilibrium?

500

Species that share a common ancestor become more distinct due to different selection pressures.

What is divergent evolution?

500

Two clades that emerge from the same node

What is a sister taxa?

500

Shark fins, penguin wings, and dolphin flippers are an example of this.

What is an analogous structure?