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where does evolution occur?

only in populations (not indivuals )

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what is all the members of one species in one place ?

population

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how to know two organisms belong to the same species ?

if they can intebreed and produce fetile offspring

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What percent of all organisms are now extinct?

99%

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What is transitional fossil between dinosaurs and modern birds?

Archaeopteryx

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Organisms that have a common ancestor will have common ______?

Biological pathways

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Similarities in embryo are evidence of ____?

Common ancestory

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What was name of supercontinent?

Pangaea

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What type of structure if they have same function and different structure ?

Analogous structure

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What type of evolution if they have different ancestory ?

Convergent evolution

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What type of structure if they have different function but same structure?

Homologous structure

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What type of evolution if they have same ancestory ?

Divergent evolution

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What is a body structure that was useful to ancestors but useless now?

Vestigial structure

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What is the heterotroph hypothesis?

The first cells were anaerobic, prokaryote(no nucleus ), and heterotrophic

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What is the evidence to theory of endosymbiosis?

That chloroplasts and mitochondria have their own DNA

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How old is the earth ?

4.6 billion

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When did the first eukaryotic cell evolve?

1.5 billion years ago

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When did the first prokaryotic cells evolve ?

3.5 billion years ago

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Write the evolution of vertebrates by order?

1) fish

2)amphibians

3)reptiles

4)mammals

5)birds

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what is the hypothesis that suggests life arose gradually from inorganic molecules ?

Oparin-Haldane hypothesis

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which scientists mimiced the early atmosphere ?

Urey and Miller

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what did ancient atmosphere consist of ?

CH4(methane)

NH3(ammonia)

water

hydrogen gas

(no free oxygen )

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what provided energy for chemical reactions that producedfirst cell?

intense heat, lightning, and UV radiation in primative atmosphere

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what is the theory that held that living creatures can arise from non-living matter?

spontaneous generation

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who concluded that the flies laid eggs on the meat in open jar caused by maggots?

Francesco Redi

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who boiled a meat broth in a swan neck flask?

louis pasteur

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what was the theory that states that organisms descend from a common ancestor gradually ?and who stated it?

Gradualism / Darwin

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who proposed theory of punctuated equilibrium?

Gould and Eldridge

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what theory relied on ideas of inheritance of acquired traits and who said it ?

theory of Use and Disuse by Lamarck

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which scientist cut the tails of rats to prove Lamarck’s theory wrong?

Weismann

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what points does darwin’s theory of evolution (natural selection) include?

1)oveproduction

2)variation

3)struggle for existance

4)survival of the fittest

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what is the raw material of evolution?

variation

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according to theory of natural selection, who are the fittest ?

organisms that can survive and reproduce

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what are the three types of natural selection?

1)directional

2)stabilizing

3)disruptive

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what is the natural selection in favour of a single extreme phenotype?

directional selection

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what type of selection in which the genetic diversity decreases ?

stabilizing selection

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what is the selection in which both extreme phenotypes are favoured over intemediate values?

disruptive/diversifying selection

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what are the causes of variation in a population?

1)mutation

2)genetic drift

3)gene flow

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what i sthe raw material for variation and the raw material for evolution?

mutation

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what is the chage in gene pool due to chance?

genetic drift

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what are the two types of gentic drift ?

1)bottle neck effect

2)founder effect

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what is reducing size of poplation by natural disasters , resulting in loss of genetic varaition ?

bottle neck

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what is the reduction in genetci variation due to migration?

founder effect

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what is the movement of alleles into or out of population?

gene flow

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what are the factors in the HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM?

1)very large population

2)isolated population

3)no mutation

4)random mating

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what are the equations for HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM?

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what is the process by which new species form?

speciation

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what are the types of isolation?

1)geographic isolation

2)polyploidy

3)temporal isolation

4)habitat isolation

5)behavioural isolation

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why is polyploidy a cause of isolation?

poyploid organisms cant breed with non polyploid organisms and thus become isolated from them

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what is temporal isolation?

organisms dont mate because they are sexually active at different times

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what is the evolutionary change in interacting populations oover time due to interactions between them ?

coevolution

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what is the similar development of a trait in distinct species due to similar evolutionary pressure ?

parallel evolution

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what is the emergence of numeous species from a single common ancestor ?

adaptive rediation

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what is the difference between divergent evolution and adaptive radiation?

divergent is mainly 2 or 3 species while radiation is many species

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what is a branching diagram or tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species ?

phylogenetic tree

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what are the types of diversity ?

1)genetic diversity —→of genes in 1 species

2)species diversity ——> among different species

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what is a biogeographic region that is both a significant reservoir of biodiversity and threatened by humans ?

biodiversity hotspot

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