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| The idea that individuals who survive with apparently costly features must have otherwise vigorous genotypes |
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| A mating system in which one male mates with many females |
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| when a male trait and female preferences for that trait are both selected for, this occurs |
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| The reason for green heads in male mallards |
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| The reason for big horns in male big horn sheep |
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| The reason for mustache markings on male Flickers (Yellow Hammer) |
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| An explanation of how mutual grooming in primates, and possibly heroism in humans, evolved even though though there seem to be no direct benefits to self or kin. |
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| Name a type of symbiosis for which coevolution is probably always involved |
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| Name a type of symbiosis for which coevolution is probably always involved |
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| Non-adaptive evolution occurs as a result of this influence |
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| Adaptive evolution, any natural process which causes differential reproduction from generation to generation |
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| Adaptive coloration involving a fasle head |
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| Adaptive coloration involving concealment through color and or pattern |
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| Symbiosis in which one partner is harmed while the other is unaffected |
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| Advertisement of noxiousness through bright and memorable colors, patterns, etc. |
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| An interdisciplinary study that helps to explain how regulatory genes were involved in the evolution of biodiversity. |
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| A method of timing the divergence between 2 related species by looking at the difference in neutral mutations |
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| a cross between different subspecies |
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| The type of scientific name used for a subspecies |
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| A reason why some species are monotypic |
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| The term for ranges which are in contact but do not overlap |
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| Sympatric speciation involving a combination of chromosome sets from different species |
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| When a pre-existing trait develops a new function |
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| A method for determining the spatio-temporal effects of a gene by RNA probes attaching to mRNA in tissues |
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| The formula for determining the time since divergence when bp differences and neutral mutation rates are known |
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| the association of two alleles more frequently than predicted by their individual frequencies |
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| a change from pyrimidine to purine |
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| A DNA sequence which is copied and inserted elsewhere in the genome |
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| # of basepair differences |
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| In the formula U=D/2T, what is D? |
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| some viruses, like HIV, have a gene for reverse transcriptase |
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| Non-transcribable portions that occur between transcribed portions of a gene |
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| Charles Darwin's birthday |
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| the condition in which a single trait is influenced by more than I gene |
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| This occurs when the heterozygote bears a selective advantage |
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| The year of publication of Darwin's "big book" |
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| Pre-Darwinian, Evolution by inheritance of acquired characteristics |
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| Post-Darwinian, evolutionary synthesis |
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| contemporary with Darwin, On the Tendencies of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type |
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| pre-darwinian, binomial nomenclature |
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| contemporary with Darwinian, paired factors of inheritance |
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| anatomy, paleontology, fixity and extinction |
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| Public support of Darwin in a debate with Bishop Wilberforce |
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| "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny |
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| neutral theory of molecular genetics |
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| Tempo and Mode in Evolution |
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| Systematics and the Origin of Species |
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| An essay on the Principles of Population |
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| Scala Naturae and the great chain of being |
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| Genetics and the Origin of Species |
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| Zoonomia and the relatedness of organisms |
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| any process which selects for more than one morph/option of a trait. |
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| when one gene is associated either by true physical linkage or selective mating to another gene |
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| Species (Evolutionary Species Concept) |
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| Naturally occuring population of actually or potentally interbreeding organisms which share a common gene pool, are reproductively isolated and are evolving separately from other such groups |
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| effectively neutral genes |
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| these are genes that bear little effect on the individual or differential selection of an organism and thus are not substantially affected by natural selection or environmental influences |
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| Gradual change in the variation |
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| no pattern to the variation within the species |
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| the fixation of mutation by natural selection, genetic drift, etc. |
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| the formation of two new species |
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| the hybrid is adapted to non-existant conditions |
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| the degradation of the organisms in future generations of the lineage |
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| is competition between one sex for access to the other sex |
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| one sex choosing a type in the other sex |
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| an individual's genes being passed on or earned by its relatives |
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| protecting or helping individuals of your family in order to assure that the genes which you share with them are passed on |
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| a mating system in which one female mates with many males |
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| random changes in allelic frequency that may occur as a relatively small number of organisms colonizes an island or new territory |
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| Random allelic frequencies that occur in populations that have recovered from severe decline |
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| discovery of polymorphic loci |
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| different forms of the same enzyme detected with electrophoresis |
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| fractions of mutations that are neutral |
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| Change in frequency governed by G.D |
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Uo is low
(small AA change alters enzyme function) |
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3rd position
High redunancy |
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| spatio-temporal effects, transcription factors |
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| Technologies in Evodevobiology |
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1. genetic model species
2. insitu hybridization
3. Northern Blot
4. antibody detection
5.Western blot
6. reporter construct anaylsis |
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Biological homology concept
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| similar because of inheritance |
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Biological homology concempt
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| similar because of common function |
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| Evolutionary Conserved vs. Evolved Pathways |
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| genes in network-genes->proteins->molecular signals between cells |
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| loss of structure is not irreversible |
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| sounds telelogical=exaptation |
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| recruitment of pre-existing genes and pathway for novel function |
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| difference in growth rates and body parts |
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| background rate, mass extinction |
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| factors influence likelihood of extinction |
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1. broadth of niche
2. diversity
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| sim fraction not present in ancestor |
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| shared ancestral character |
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| only on thing, not shared |
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| rate of random phenomena is the same in all species, driven by mutation and genetic drift |
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