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Mechanisms of Evolution
Evidence of Evolution
History of Evolutionary Theory
Adaptation
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The average individuals in the population have higher fitness and are favored
What is Stabilizing Selection
100
Provides a record of early life and evolutionary theory
What is Fossil Record
100
The person who thought population growth would always overpower food supply growth
Who is Thomas Malthus
100
A trait shaped by natural selection that increases an organism's reproductive success
What is Adaptation
100
Allelic frequencies in a population will remain constant unless one or more factors cause those frequencies to change
What is Hardy-Weinberg Principle
200
What occurs during DNA replication
What is Mutations
200
A body structure in a present-day organism that no longer serves its original purpose but was probably useful to an ancestor
What is a vestigial structure
200
The person whose evolution hypothesis was Innate Tendency Toward Perfection
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
200
One way to determine how effectively a trait contributes to reproductive success is to measure...
What is fitness
200
Chromosomes can line up different ways during metaphase I of meiosis
What is Independent Assortment
300
Any change in the allele frequencies in a population that is due to a chance through independent assortment
What is Genetic Drift
300
Similar biochemical patterns in proteins and DNA/RNA with various species
What is Biochemistry
300
The book Charles Darwin wrote
What is On the Origin of Species
300
The better an organism is adapted to its environment...
What is the greater its chances of survival and reproductive success
300
The movement of alleles into and out of a gene pool
What is gene flow
400
The loss of genetic variation occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population
What is Founder Effect
400
Develops in the same order and in similar patterns to produce the tissues and organs of all vertebrates
What is the same group of embryonic cells
400
Organisms were well suited to the environments they inhabited
What is Darwin's Observation
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Fitness is often measured as the number of ____________ offspring that an organism produces in the next generation
What is reproductively viable
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When individuals at both of the extremes of a trait are both more fit and are favored over the average individuals in the population
What is disruptive selection
500
Migration of organisms into different areas can cause the __________ of a population to change
What is allele frequencies
500
Forelimbs of a whale, crocodile, and bird are all examples of
What is a homologous structure
500
Charles Darwin was the this ship's naturalist
What is H.M.S. Beagle
500
Antimicrobial resistance changes in an organism's metabolic processes
What is Physiological Adaptations
500
Scientific advances in many fields in biology, geology, and physics have ________ and _________ most of Darwin's hypotheses
What is confirmed and expanded