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General
100
Humans decide on the selection criteria for the evolution of species.
What is artificial selection?
100
This man was the first to openly endorse evolution.
Who is Buffon?
100
The study of vertebrate embryonic development.
What is embryology?
100
A hybrid is born but dies before birth.
What is pre-zygotic barrier?
100
This is a variation where a species resembles another to evade predation.
What is mimicry?
200
Females choose males who are showy.
What is sexual selection?
200
Lamarck speculated the this type of characteristic was the driving force of evolution.
What is inherited characteristics?
200
Name of fossilized bird reptile transition species.
What is Archaepteryx?
200
A successful hybrid has inviable offspring.
What is post-zygotic barrier?
200
The way the organism looks.
What is phenotype?
300
A population is significantly reduced by an earthquake.
What is parapatric selection?
300
Two of Darwin's key observations on his world trip.
What is the lack of amphibians and mammals on remote islands and species on islands resemble those on the closest mainland.
300
Wing of a bat and wing of a bird are an example of this type of structure
What is analogous structure?
300
Speciation which occurs when species are physically in contact.
What is sympatric speciation?
300
Consequence of small populations due to chance.
What is genetic drift?
400
General name for movement of genes between populations.
What is genetic drift?
400
Economist who speculated on population dynamics and resource acquistion whose work helped Darwin.
What is Thomas Malthus
400
An example of a homologous structures.
What is a vertebrate forelimb of a horse and a pig?
400
Speciation occurs in populations that are geographically separated.
What is allopatric speciation?
400
A specific version of a gene.
What is an allele?
500
A species has adapted to different niches, for example, Darwin's finches.
What is adaptive radiation?
500
Lyell and Cuvier debated about these two forms of change.
What is uniformitarianism and castastrophism?
500
Some species have genes that have undergone mutations that no longer serve a useful purpose.
What are pseudogenes?
500
Three types of natural selection.
What is disruptive, stabilizing, and directional selection?
500
One speed at which evolution occurs.
What is divergent evolution?