Evolution Flashcards

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Natural Selection=

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Evolution

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Galapagos Islands

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Different species than around the islands.

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Artificial Selection

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Selective Breeding

Humans are involved.

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Natural Selection

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Natural Selection for survival.

Evolution.

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Evolution

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Cumulative changes in groups of organisms through time.

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Derived Traits

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Newly evolved features.

Don’t appear in ancestors fossils.

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Ancestral Traits

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More primitive features.

Appear on ancestral forms.

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Homologous structures

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Anatomically similar structures inherited from a common ancestor.

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Vestigial Structures

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Structures that are the reduced form of functional structures in other organisms.

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Analogous Structures

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Same purpose and can be superficially similar in construction but are not inherited from a common ancestor.

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Biogeography

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Study of the distribution of plants and animals around the world.

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Fitness

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A measure of the relative contribution that an individual trait makes to the next generation.

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Camouflage

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Morphological adaptions that allow animal to blend in with their environments.

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Mimicry

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One species evolves to resemble another species.

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Antimicrobial resistance

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Resistance made by mutation.

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Genetic Drift

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Any change in the allelic frequencies in a population that results from chance.

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Founder effect

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An extreme example of genetic drift.

Small sample of a population settles in a location separated from the rest of the population.

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Bottleneck

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A population declines to a very low number and then rebounds.

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Stabilizing Selection

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The most common form of natural selection.
Eliminates extreme expressions of a trait when the average expressions of a trait when the average expression leads to higher fitness.

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Directional Selection

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Increases the expression of the extreme versions of a trait in a population.

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Sexual Selection

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Change in frequency of a trait is based on the ability to attract a mate.
Populations that male and females differ.

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Disruptive Selection

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A process that splits a population into two groups.

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Prezygotic Isolating Mechanisms

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Operate before fertilization occurs.

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Postzygotic Isolating Mechanisms

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Operate after fertilization has occurred to ensure that the resulting hybrid remains infertile.

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Allopatric Speciation
A physical barrier that divides one population into two or more populations.
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Sympatric Speciation
A species evolves into a new species without a physical barrier.
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Adaptive Radiation
Dramatic example of speciation. Can occur in a relatively short period when one species gives rise to many species in response to the creation of a new habitat or another ecological opportunity.
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Gradualism
Evolution proceeds in small gradual steps.
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Punctuated Equilibrium
Attempts to explain such abrupt transitions in the fossil record.
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Evolution formed from...
Darwin looking at mockingbirds' different beaks.
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Industrial Mechanism
When industrialism has to do with adaptations.