Extra BUG questions before the test

Sexual selection is a case of natural selection that concerns the ability of individuals to acquire mates.

Jean-Baptiste de Lamark’s hypothesis of evolution stated that evolution is a product of inheritance of acquired characteristics.

3rd way of thinking: How? (mechanistic), religion via God’s will, Why? (The Darwinian way of thinking)

The downside to using cladistics is convergent evolution

Upstream guppies are more brightly coloured than downstream guppies

If the life expectancy is reduced, the population will reproduce earlier.

Population bottlenecks and founder effects bioth reduce genetic variation in a population

Some species mimic the appearance of others, this is called batesian mimicry.

The two principles for building phylogenic trees are maximum parsimony and likelihood

opportunity and innovation dictate the rate of evolution/speciation?

Homologous traits are the result of divergence

Cooperation is favoured when there is competition between groups

Bottleneck happens not by choice, founder effect happens by choice

DNA sequences change at a consistent rate over time.

Predictions of evolutionary theory: 1. Species change over time 2. Species are interrelated

If response is not increasing, the trait is not heritable

Sexually reproducing population have increased genetic diversity due to recombination