Phylogenetic Trees
Evolution
Speciation
Hardy-Weinberg
Random
100
The taxa that have hair
What are Elephant, Kangaroo, Platypus?
100
The change in allele frequency from one generation to the next is an example of ______ while long-term extinction or speciation is an example of ______.
What are microevolution, macroevolution?
100
Isolation that occurs in a population within one continuous area is called
What is sympatric speciation?
100
This is the equation for allele frequency.
What is p+q=1
100
This measures the fitness of an organism
What is number of fertile healthy offspring
200
"F" most closely related to this group
What is "E"?
200
Physical traits that are similar in order to help unrelated organisms survive in the same habitats are called
What are homologous traits or homologies?
200
A term for species that are currently alive
What is extant?
200
This is the equation for genotype frequency.
What is p2+2pq+q2=1
200
This term refers to organisms that originated from a common ancestor and rapidly evolved to fill many niches
what is adaptive radiation
300
This means the group least related to the others
What is the out group?
300
A flood kills most of a population of ground squirrels leading to a much smaller and less diverse population. This is an example of
(hint: be specific)
What is the bottleneck effect?
300
The western and the eastern meadowlark both inhabit central Texas in the spring but do not recognize each other's mating songs. This is an example of
(hint: be specific)
What is behavioral isolation?
300
There is a population of wild rats with the following allele frequencies: p = .7 and q = .3
The percent of the population expected to be homozygous dominant is
What is p=.49
300
The ____ species concept is based on physical traits
what is morphological
400
A trait that is ancient and shared among many distantly related taxa
a conserved/ancestral trait
400
A mother bear will put herself in danger to protect her offspring. This is referred to as
What is kin selection?
400
Mules are sterile hybrids resulting from a cross between a horse and a donkey. This is an example of
(hint: Be specific)
What is hybrid infertility?
400
There is a population of wild hogs with the following allele frequencies: p = .5 and q = .5
The percent of the population that is expected to be heterozygous is
What is 2pq=.5
400
Darwin loved breeding pigeons and saw that traits could be exaggerated over generations. The breeding of animals is called _____, not natural selection
what is artificial selection
500
This vocab word describes the logic behind the most likely tree being considered to be the accurate tree.
What is parsimony?
500
This term means fast speciation in response to a new habitat opening up.
What is adaptive radiation?
500
Sexual selection can lead to phenotypically different appearances between males and females. This is referred to as
What is sexual dimorphism?
500
These are three HW assumptions
What is only random mating
What is infinite pop size
What is no mutation
What is no genetic drift
What is no natural selection
500
What are the taxonomic ranks from largest to smallest?
What is:
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species