What is the variable used for the frequency of the dominant allele?
p
100
Who developed taxonomy, the science of grouping and naming organisms?
Carolus Linnaeus
100
What is the bottleneck effect?
When a large population suddenly becomes small because of natural disaster, hunting, etc.
100
Darwin believed that each individual is unique. Which term describes this?
Natural Variation
100
What word refers to remains and traces of past life, like footprints?
Fossils
200
What is the variable used for the frequency of homozygous recessive?
q-squared
200
Who first described the theory of uniformitarianism?
Charles Lyell
200
Which type of natural selection is when the intermediate phenotype is selected for?
Stabilizing selection
200
The struggle for existence is...
organisms must compete for food, space, mates, etc.
200
Homologous structures are...
Anatomically similar because they're from a common ancestor but do not necessarily have the same function, ex: bird wing, human arm, whale flipper
300
There are five conditions that allow a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, which are...
No mutation, no migration, large gene pool, random mating, and no selection
300
James Hutton's theory of gradualism states...
Change is a cumulative result of a slow but continuous process.
300
What is the term for when a few individuals break off from a large population and find a new population?
Founder Effect
300
What is meant by the term "survival of the fittest"?
Those organisms that are best adapted to their environment will survive and reproduce, thus passing on their advantageous genes
300
Analogous structures are....
Different structures with similar function in different species, ex: bird wing and butterfly wing
400
A population of cats may be brown (dominant phenotype) or tan (recessive phenotype). Brown cats have the genotype BB or Bb. Tan cats have the genotype bb. The frequency of the BB genotype is .35. What is the frequency of the B allele.
p= .48
400
Malthus believed that _______ _______ is a consequence of overpopulation.
Human suffering (disease, war, etc.)
400
Directional Selection is when...
One extreme phenotype is selected for
400
Which term means a measure of an organism's reproductive success?
Fitness
400
Which term refers to structures that are no longer essential, like wisdom teeth?
Vestigial Structures
500
Brown hair (B) is dominant to blonde hair. If there are 168 brown haired people in a population of 200, what is the predicted frequency of heterozygotes?
.48
500
Who was an anti-evolutionist that saw species as fixed and arranged them in a ladder of increasing complexity.
Aristotle
500
Disruptive selection is when...
two or more extreme phenotypes are selected for
500
Which term means organisms have descended from a common ancestor?
Decent with Modification
500
What is some biochemical evidence for evolution?
All living organisms have DNA.
There is the same triplet coding for amino acids/proteins.