Important concepts Flashcards
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Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
Recapitulation Theory
Evolution won a small scale (in a single population )
Microevolution
Evolution on a scale that transcends the boundaries of a single species
MacroEvolution
Urey-Miller Experiment
Trying to find out if biological molecules could form spontaneously on primitive earth
Urey-Miller results
Biological molecules can form outside of a cell
First oxygen producers
Cyanobacteria
Laminated structures created by microbial communities
Stromatolites
A principle stating that the genetic variation in a population will remain constant from one generation to the next in the absence of disturbing factors
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Conditions for HWE
No Mutations, Random mating, No Natural Selection, Large population, and no Gene flow