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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Darwinian Evolution

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Natural Selection
- Individuals with favorable characteristics necessary for survival will posses an advantage over others and pass down their genes dominating others.

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What is Adaptation?

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adaptation, is the adjustment of organisms to their environment in order to improve their chances at survival in that environment.

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What are Alleles?

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All the different forms that a particular gene might take

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Aptation

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The shaping of any useful feature of an organism, regardless of that feature’s origin

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What are chromosomes?

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Sets of paired bodies in the nucleus of cells that are made of DNA and contain the hereditary genetic information that organisms pass on to their offspring

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What is common ancestry?

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Darwin’s claim that similar living species must all have had a common ancestor

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What is Continuous Variation?

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A pattern of variation involving polygeny in which Phenotypic traits grade imperceptibly from one member of the population another without sharp breaks

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What is Discontinuous Variation?

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A Pattern of phenotypic variation in which the phenotype exhibits sharp breaks from one member of the population to the next

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What is DNA?

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(Deoxyribonucleic Acid)
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The structure that carries the genetic heritage of an organism as a kind of blueprint for the organism’s construction and development

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What is Evolution?

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The process of change over time

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What is Evolutionary Theory?

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The set of testable hypotheses that assert that living organism can change over time and give rise to new kinds of organisms, with the result that all organisms ultimately share a common ancestry.

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What is Exaptation

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Any exaptation is defined as any adaptation that performs a function different from the function that it originally held.

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What is a Gene?

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The portion or portions of the DNA molecules that code for proteins that shape phenotypic traits

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What is a Genome

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The genetic information about particular biological traits encoded in an organism’s DNA

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What is Genus?

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a taxonomic category ranking used in biological classification that is below family and above species.

The level of the Linnaen taxonomy in which different species are grouped together based on their similarities to one another. In modern taxonomies, genus is ranked between family (less specific) and species (more specific)

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What is a Linnaean system?

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a classification system for the natural world to standardize the naming of species and order them according to their characteristics and relationships with one another.

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What is Heterozygous?

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Describes a fertilized egg that receives a different particle (or allele) from each parent for a particular trait

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What is Homozygous?

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Describes a fertilized egg that receives the same particle (or allele) from each parent for a particular trait

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What is Mendelian Inheritance?

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The view that heredity is based on non-blending, single-particle genetic inheritence

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What is Mutation?

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a spontaneous random change in the chemistry of DNA

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What is Natural Selection

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Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes species to change and diverge over time.

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What is Niche Construction?

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Niche construction theory (NCT) is a fledgling branch of evolutionary biology that places emphasis on the capacity of organisms to modify natural selection in their environment and thereby act as co-directors of their own, and other species’, evolution.

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Norm of Reaction

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A table or graph that displays the possible range of phenotype outcomes for a given genotype in different environments

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What is Pangenesis

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A theory of heredity suggesting that an organism’s physical traits are passed on from one generation to the next in the form of multiple distinct particles given off by all parts of the organism, different proportions of which get passed on to offspring via sperm or egg

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What is a Phenotype

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The observable, measurable, overt characteristics of an organism

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What is pleiotropy

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The observable, measurable, over characteristics of an organism

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What is Polygeny

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The phenomenon whereby many genes are responsible for producing a phenotype trait, such as skin colour.

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What is the Principle of Segregation?

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A principle of mendelian inheritence in which an individual gets one gene for each trait from each parent
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how pairs of gene variants are separated into reproductive cells

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What are Species

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A reproductive community of populations that occupies a specific niche in nature

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What is Taxonomy?

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In Biology, a classification system used to organize various kinds of organisms

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What is Variational Evolution

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The Darwinian theory of evolution, which assumes that variant members of a species respond differently to environmental challenges those variants that are more successful (“fitter”) survive and reproduce more offspring, who inherit the trai that made their parents fit.

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Pre-Darwinian Views of the Natural world

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Great Chain of Being
Catastrophism
Uniformitarianism
Transformational Evolution

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What is learning

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Species developing new behaviour to adapt to surroundings

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What is Instinct

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Hardwired behaviour

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What is Acclimatization

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Is a physiological response within individuals to environmental pressure

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What is Genetic adaptation

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Are Changes within populations in response to selection pressure

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Directional selection

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Evolution that constantly evolves in the same direction (EX: Horses)

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Stabilizing Selection

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Extremes are selected against, decreasing genetic diversity
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Eliminates the extremes

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Disruptive selection

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Extremes do better (in terms of physical characteristics) at surviving

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Population Genetics

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How frequency of alleles change due to population change

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Migration (Gene flow)

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The movement of alleles from one population to another as a result of interbreeding

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Genetic drift

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A change of allele frequencies as a consequence of random changes in population size

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