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Chapter 24
Ch. 24
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Biology
12th Grade
11/12/2012

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Adaptive radiation
Definition
Emergence of new species from a common ancestor, creating a diversity of new opportunities and problems
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Allometric growth
Definition
Variation in relative rates of growth of different body parts
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Allopatric speciation
Definition
A mode of speciation induced when an ancestral population becomes segregated by a geographic barrier or is itself divided into two or more geographically isolated subpopulations.
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Allopolyploid
Definition
Results from two species interbreeding and mixing chromosomes
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Autopolyploid
Definition
An individual with two or more chromosome sets, derived from a single species
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Biological species concenpt
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Definition of a species as a population or group of populations whose members have the potential to interbreed in nature and produce viable, fertile offspring, but are not able to produce viable, fertile offspring with members of other populations.
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Ecological species concept
Definition
Defining species in terms of niches
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Heterochrony
Definition
Evolutionary change in timing or rate of organism's development
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Homeotic gene
Definition
Control overall body plan of organism by controlling the development rate of cells
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Macroevolution
Definition
Evolution above species level
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Morpohlogical species concept
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Defining species by measuring anatomical criteria
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Paedomorphisis
Definition
Adult organism retains juvenile characteristics of ancestors
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Paleontological species concept
Definition
Definition of species based only on fossil record
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Phylogenetic species concept
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Definition of a species as a set of organisms with a unique history
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Polyploidy
Definition
Organism contains more than two complete chromosome sets
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Postzygotic barrier
Definition
Prevent hybrids from becoming fertile adults
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Prezygotic barrier
Definition
Impedes mating right from the beginning
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Punctuated equllibrium
Definition
Long periods of no change interrupted by short periods of change
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Reproductive isolation
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Impede members of two species from making viable offspring
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Speciation
Definition
Origin of new species
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Species
Definition
Members are anatomically similar and can interbreed
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Species selection
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A theory maintaining that species living the longest and generating the greatest number of species determine the direction of major evolutionary trends
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Sympatric speciation
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A mode of speciation occurring as a result of a radical change in the genome of a subpopulation, reproductively isolating the subpopulation from the parent population
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