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| Mineralized remnants of formerly living organisms |
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| Abundance of each version of a gene in a population(2wds). |
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| What occurs when no evolution is happening in a population |
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| Behavioral, mechanical and ecological isolation are all types of what? |
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| Prezygotic reproductive isolation |
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| Occurs when natural selection favors one extreme of a variable trait. |
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| What is one type of Absolute dating of fossils? |
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| Radiometric Dating(ex C14) |
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| Selection that favors the extremes. |
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| Large scale evolutionary changes leading to higher taxonomic divergence. |
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| Need not have the same function but indicate evolutionary relationships |
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| An example of post-zygotic reproductive isolation |
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| Type of selection that favors intermediate forms. |
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| An example of temporal isolation |
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| Reproductive isolation as a result of sexual maturation at different times |
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| Refers to speciation events happening rapidly between long periods of stasis |
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| Genetic change over time. |
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| What is the Hardy - Weinberg Equation? |
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| When a new species branches off of an existing one. |
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| What type of speciation occurs within the range of the ancestral population without a physical barrier? |
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| Shifts in allele frequencies due to random events. |
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| Explosions of speciation events from a single ancestor(2wds) |
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| Person primarily responsible for the idea of natural selection. |
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| He thought that individual organisms changed physically and some how passed those traits to the next generation. |
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| Evolutionary remnants of former functional structures(ie. pelvic girder of snakes) |
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| Flow of alleles in and out of a population by immigration / emigration |
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| Darwin made a 5 year voyage on the __________________ |
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| Favors traits only on their adaptive value in mate choice. |
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