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Populations changing over time in response to the environment is called....
evolution
This man developed the Law of Acquired Characteristics
What is Lamarck
The environment choosing for certain traits is called...
natural selection
The theory of punctuated equilibrium is...
evolutionary change of long periods of equilibrium interrupted by major events leading to many species extinction
A fish migrated to a cave and lost their eyesight. This structure would now be called a ______ structure.
vestigial
The way that an organism looks
phenotype
Females choose mates who are showy is an example of
non-random mating (specifically, sexual selection)
The wings of a bird and bat are examples of this type of structure
analogous structures
This can result if a population is significantly reduced by an earthquake
bottleneck effect resulting in genetic drift
Name 3 of the evidences of evolution
fossils, biogeography, anatomy, embryology, DNA
An example of homologous structures
human arm and bat wing
Salmon may mate in the spring or in the fall
temporal isolation
1. General name for movement of genes between populations
gene flow
The father of "evolution" is...
Darwin
The term "immutable" refers to...
a species not changing over time
Speciation which occurs when species are physically in the same area
sympatric
What feature of humans led to their dominance in the world?
brain, thumb