Study Guide For Ch 14-16

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Allopatric speciation

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Happens when species arise as a result of geographic isolation

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Adaptation

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The process of becoming adapted to an environment; an anatomical, physiological, or behavioral

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Analogous structure

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Have closely related functions but do not derive from the same ancestral structure (birds and bats)

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Coevolution

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The evolution of two or more species that is due to mutual influence

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Descent with modification

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The passing on of traits from parent to offspring

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Directional selection

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A type of natural selection in which the most extreme trait is the most common (insects with camouflage)

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Disruptive selection

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The two extremes are most common (mice on an island)

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Divergent evolution

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The process by which two or more related but reproductively isolated populations aren’t alike

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Gene flow

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The movement of genes into or out of a population due to interbreeding

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Genetic drift

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The random change in allele frequency I’m a population

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Geographic isolation

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The physical separation of populations due to geographic barriers, so no interbreeding

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Half- life

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The time required for half of a sample of a radioactive isotope to break down to a daughter

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Homologous structure

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Anatomical structures that occur in different species and that originated by heredity from a structure in the most recent common ancestor of the species

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Inheritance of acquired characteristics

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A hypothesis that physiological changes are acquired in life

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Mutation

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A change in the nucleotide base sequence of a gene or DNA molecule

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Natural selection

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The process by which individuals that are better adapted to the environment

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Nonrandom mating

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Mating that has not occurred by chance sometimes with human interference

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Pre zygotic isolation

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Occurs before fertilization (dog and cat can’t make offspring together)

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Post zygotic isolation

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Occurs after fertilization (mules can be made, but don’t reproduce)

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Sexual selection

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A variation of natural selection (male baboons have red striped noses)

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Spontaneous generation

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An early and now disproved theory that living things can come from no living things

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Stabilizing selection

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A type of natural selection in which the average is favored

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Sympatric speciation

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Occurs when 2 sub populations become reproductively isolated

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Uniformitarianism

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The thought that geologic processes change the earth

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Vestigial structure

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Doesn't serve a purpose but resembles functional structures in other organisms (human tailbone)

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Redi

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Maggots were found only in the control jars because that was the only place where adult flies could reach the meat to lay eggs

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Pasteur

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A flask with a curved but open neck prevented microorganisms from entering. Broth boiled in the flasks became contaminated by microorganisms only when the curves necks were removed

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Spallanzani

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He boiled meat broth in open flasks. Then he sealed the flasks off the experimental group by melting the glass necks of the flasks closed. The broth inside remained uncontaminated

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Darwin

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Provided the idea of evolution

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Lamarck

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Supported the idea that populations of organisms change over time

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Oparin

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Discovered that at high temperatures, gases may form simple organic compounds, such as amino acids

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Miller and Urey

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Tested oparins hypothesis

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Lyell

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Provided the idea of Uniformitarianism

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How old is earth

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Over 4 billion years

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How do DNA and RNA evolve?

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In all species, DNA and RNA are the molecular basis for inheritance of traits

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What were the first cells?

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They might have developed in an environment filled with organic molecules for food and were probably anaerobic, heterotrophic prokaryotes

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What kinds of fossils are there?

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Bones, plants, sediments, and saps

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According to Darwin, how does evolution occur?

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Characteristics within a population from one generation to the next

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What are the requirements for natural selection to occur?

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Overproduction, genetic variation, struggle to survive, and differential reproduction

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List the types of evidence we have for evolution

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Fossils, biogeography, anatomy/embryology, biological molecules, and developing theory

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On what does natural selection act on?

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Phenotypes