Evolution | Vocab

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Evolution

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Changes in the genetic composition of a popoulation during successive generations

“Descent with Modification”

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Artistotle

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Believed in the Scala Naturae + that non living things and living things were “fixed”, and did not change over time

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Scala Naturae

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Ladder like classifcation of nature from humans (top) to animals. Also included inorganic matter

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Georges Curvier

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Believed in the Theory of Catastrophism & was the founder of Comparative Morphology/Paleontology

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Theory of Catastraphism

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The theory that Earth has been largely shaped by short lived, violent events. After each catastrophe, God created more creations

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Jean Baptise Lamarck

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Proposed the theories of Use and Disuse + Inhertiance of Acquired Traits

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Charles Darwin

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Observed that plants and animals adapt to their own enviroments

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Natural Selection

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A process of how organisms better adapted to their enviroment tend to survive and reproduce more offspring

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Natural Variation

Give an example

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Individuals within the same species has genetic variations

Ex: Physical Apperance, metabolism, behavior

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Heritability (Genetic Inheritance)

Give an example:

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Traits that are passed unto offspring

Ex: eye colors, hair colors, height

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Differential Survival

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Many offspring do not survive due to low resources

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Mathus Principle

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When every generation produces more offspring than what can survive

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Differential Reproduction

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All organisms can produce more offspring than the enviroment can support, and the offspring best suited for the enviroment survive longer

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Alfred Russel Wallace

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Independently described a mechanism for biological evolution that was almost the identical to Darwins

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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Proposed that all life of Earth is related and evolved from a common ancestor

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Fossil Evidence

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Can trace the evolutionary ancestry of an organism + proves the extinction of a species

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Biogeography

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Deals with the geographic distribution of plants and animals

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Homologous Structures

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When organs or skeletons are similar enough to suggest their connection to a common ancestor

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Microevolution

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Small changes in a population over a small period of time

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Macroevolution

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Large changes within a species (across many populations) over a large period of time

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Population

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Group of individuals of the same species

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Gene

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Code for DNA that can code for a characteristic

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Allele

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Varieities of a gene that you get from both parents.

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Genotype

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Genetic makeup of an individual

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Phenotype

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Physical expression of an organism

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Gene Pool

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Total genetic diversity that can be found within a population for a species

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Hardy - Weinberg Equilibrium

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When neither gene or allele frequency changes in succeeding generation

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Genetic Mutation

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Permanant alteration in the DNA sequence that makes up a gene

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Gene Flow

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The transfer of gene variation from one population to another

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Non Random Mating

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When Individuals do not choose their mates randomly

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Assertive Mating

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Individuals tend to mate with those of the same phenotypes

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Sexual Selection

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Males compete for their right to reproduce + female choose the males with a particular phenotype

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Genetic Drift

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Changes in the alleles frequency of a gene pool due to chance which leads to a reduction in genetic variation

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Bottleneck Effect

Give an example:

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When there is a sharp decrease in population due enviromental events

Ex) disease, starvation, drought

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Founder Effect

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A loss in genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population.

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Directional Selection

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Extreme phenotypes is most fit for an enviroment

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Stabalizing Selection

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An intermediate phenotype is favored

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Disruptive Selection

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Two or more extreme phenotypes over intermediate phenotypes

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Principle of Use + Disuse

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The more an organism uses a trait within its lifetime the more it grows.

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Inheritance of Acquired Characterstics

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An organism can pass on its offspring physical characteristics that the parent acquired through use/disuse

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Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell

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Geological changes occurs slowly over long periods of time

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Observations by Charles Darwin

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From Charles Darwin experinces on the Islands, he noted that each island had unique organisms that may have descneded from a single one

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Essay on the Principle of the Population by T.Mathus

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States that not all species have exponential growth due to limited resources

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Hardy - Weignberg Equation

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p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1