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What is Artificial Selection?

Farmers only allowing the best animals to breed is an example of this process.

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What are use/disuse, passing on of acquired traits and desire to change?

Larmarck made these 3 false assumptions.

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What are the earth is older than once thought and has changed over time?

Lyell made these two key observations regarding the

earth.

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What is war, famine and disease are necessary to keep populations in check?

Malthus made these rather unpopular opinions known

regarding population dynamics.

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What is On The Origin of Species?

In 1859, Charles Darwin finally published his conclusions in this

famous book.

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What is dying doing something incredibly stupid?

A Darwin award is granted to any person meeting these two

conditions.

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What is survival of the fittest?

Individuals whose characteristics are best suited to their environment survive and reproduce leaving more offspring describes this principle.

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What are selective pressures?

Factors in the environment that either favor or

disadvantage members of a species are known as these.

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What is fitness?

Physical traits and behaviors that help an organism survive and

reproduce in its environment are better known as this term.

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What is the process in nature that results in the most fit organisms producing more

offspring and dominating the gene pool of the next generation?

Natural selection may be defined as this.

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What is the fossil record?

This is considered the only “direct” evidence of

evolution taking place.

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What are homologous structures?

Body parts that come from a common origin, but which

may look radically different are known as these.

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What are vestigial organs?

These body parts are remnants seemingly left

behind during evolution and are no longer of use to the

organism having them.

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What are analogous structures?

These body parts appear similar in both appearance

and function despite having very different origins.

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What are finch beak size on Daphne Major and the Peppered Moth in England?

These two examples of evolution in action show

species changing in response to their environment.

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What is extinction?

This occurs when a species is unable to adapt successfully to a changing environment and results in the species

dying out.

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What is gradualism?

This theory of evolution prescribes to a slow

progression of change over long periods of time.

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What is punctuated equilibria?

A pattern of long stable periods interrupted by brief periods of change is better

known as this.

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What is variation due to sexual reproduction?

This factor often prevents a species from being

completely wiped out during periods of change in their

environment.

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What is genetic research?

This area of scientific research is likely to yield the most useful information and shape modern evolutionary

theory in the future.

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What are genes?

These are considered the raw materials of evolution.

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What is genetic drift?

A random change in the frequency of a gene is known

as this concept.

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What are mutations?

Random changes in the genetic code of an organism

are known as these.

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What is an allele?

A specific form of any individual trait is known as

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What is the relative frequency of alleles for a particular trait?

Natural selection will result in a shift in this within a population’s gene pool.

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What is speciation?

The creation of a new species from a single original species

may be defined as this.

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What is convergent evolution?

The adaptation of structures that perform the same function due to similar environmental pressures

results in this evolutionary process.

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What is Adaptive Radiation?

When one species gives rise to many it is known as

divergent evolution. Another name for this process is this.

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What is niche?

The combination of an organisms place and occupation within its

ecosystem is better known by this term.

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What are ancestors, separation of populations, changes in the gene pool,

reproductive isolation and sharing the same environment?

Speciation requires five distinct stages. In order, these are the five stages.

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