unit 7

Allele What is this and how are new ones made? 

Allele frequency Remember that this is used to measure microevolutionary change. 

Analogous and homologous structures What are they and how do they differ? 

Artificial selection aka selective breeding What is this and how does it work? 

Biogeography What is it? Who is credited with founding this science? 

Binomial nomenclature Who created it and how does it work?

Clade What does this mean? 

Evidence of Evolution What are the 5 lines of evidence we learned about in class? 

Fitness What does this mean?

Forces of evolution: Can you remember the five forces of evolution we learned?

Gene Flow What does this mean?

Genetic Drift What does this mean? 

Geographic isolation What does this mean? What process usually starts with it? 

Linnaean taxonomy What is it based on? What are the groups (in order)? 

Macroevolution and Microevolution What are they and how are they different?

Mutations Remember these can create new alleles that can be good, bad, or neutral for fitness. Remember these happen randomly 

Natural selection Remember this is when traits & alleles that are beneficial (give higher fitness) become more common in a population. Remember that natural selection happens when a population has a variety of heritable traits that affect fitness. 

Non-random mating, especially sexual selection What does this mean? 

Phylogeny or cladogram Know that these “family trees” of life are how living things are classified based on evolutionary relatedness

Population What does this mean? 

Reproductive isolation What does this mean, and what are the three ways we learned that it can happen? 

Scientific terms: theory, law, fact What does each mean? 

Selective pressure What does it mean? What is the difference between biotic and abiotic selective pressures? 

Special creation What does this mean and how is it different from Natural selection? 

Species How did we define it? What are the 3 ways we discussed that the definition is limited/challenging? How do new species form? 

Vestigial structure What is it?