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Evolution
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Biology
9th Grade
04/22/2009

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Polyploidy Isolation
Definition
A type of mutation thatmakes organisms started as monopolyploid turns into sipliod during meosis wich inables breeding with monoployids
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Geographic isolation
Definition
When spicies are separated by land/water
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Habitat Isolation
Definition
Live in same area but have rare enconters
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Behavioral Isolation
Definition
when mating calls are different than they dont mate with others with diferent even if they are in the same spieces
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Temporal Iaolation
Definition
Refers to time become sexualy ready at different speeds
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Reproductive isolation
Definition
small dog vs big dog
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Divergengent Evolution
Definition
Population becomes isolate and evolves into different spicies
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Convergent Evolution
Definition
Similar adaptations different spicies Whale and fish
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Parallel Evolution
Definition
Different spicies but very close in common since they have adapted to the same conditons
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Addaptive radiation
Definition
All have common ancester but have been separeted and then addapted to that enviroment to the point that they can no longer interbreed
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Gradualism
Definition
Branching from one ansester slowly farthering themselves from one another
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Punctuated Equalibrium
Definition
New spiecies arise as others go extinct spontaneus species and rapid evolition
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How life began
Definition
CHems in air and other variable randomly let it began with the sock of electrisisty
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Fosil Record
Definition
Reaveals species that are extinct we are able to see how animals evolved
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Comparitive Anatomy
Definition
Organisms with similar structural anatomy
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Homo Structures
Definition
Arm of man Arm of Cat
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Analogolist
Definition
Bats wing and butterfly
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Vestigial
Definition
appendix
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Molecular biology
Definition
Animals with similar amino acids are similar in common ancecstors
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Lamrk
Definition
Individuals Evolve Wronge
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Darwin
Definition
Natural selection populations evolve not individuals
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Stabalizing selection
Definition
More of the same less extreams
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Distruptive / diversifying
Definition
Middle cut extreams form into more and the midle has less
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Directional
Definition
when a population shifts left or right together
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Genetic Drift
Definition
gene pool changes
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Bottleneck
Definition
Natural disaster leaves random amount surviving
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Founders
Definition
Leave group to found there own population
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