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| What is the simplest definition of evolution? |
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| Descent with modification |
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| The textbook gives emphasis to the theory of evolution by referring to it as what? |
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| The core theme of biology |
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Who said the following statement?
"The convergence... of results of studies undertaken independently from eachother constitutes in itself a significant arguement in favour of this theory" |
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| Pope John Paul the Second |
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| Which major mechanism of evolution is defined as differential reproductive success? |
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| What's something Darwinian evolution must include? |
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| Significant changes in beak size of the medium ground finch involved what? |
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| Major extremes in climate |
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| What can be said about the breeds of dogs? |
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- Capable of interbreeding
- Descended from wolves
- Products of artificial selection
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| The record in the rocks reveals that contemporary forms should be most similar to fossils in what? |
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| Species in the same genus on the Galapagos islands are most closely related to what? |
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| Species of the same genus on that island or nearby islands |
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| What type of rock are fossils most often found in? |
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| Certain whale fossils have a type of ankle bone that is unique to a group of land mammals that have what? |
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| What can be said about homologous structures? |
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| "Ontogeny recaptulates phylogeny" is a phrase that supports the evolutionary kinship from the comparative study of what? |
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| The spurs on each side of the rubber boa are examples of structures that are what? |
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| Separate creation, but opportunity for evolution characterizes what? |
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| Who was the naturalist who felt divinely inspired to classify God's creatures? |
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| The "scale of nature" to order all of life's creatures was proposed by who? |
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| Superimposed layers of rock where most fossils are formed are called what? |
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| Cuvier explained changes in organic form observed in layers of fossilized rocks by advocating what? |
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| The theory of gradualism that explained Earth's geological features was proposed by who? |
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| A contemporary of Darwin who wrote about geology and promoted the idea of uniform geological processes was who? |
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| What's the genus of the wooly mammoth? |
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| What's an inference based on Darwin's theory of natural selection? |
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| Who was the evolutionary botanist that was one of the architects of the modern synthesis? |
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| What is the frequency of p and q reffered to as? |
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| The Hardy-Weinberg equillibrium theory describes a population's genetic structure that is what? |
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| If a population is in Hardy Weinberg, what's the equation to determine expected genotypic frequencies? |
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| Some toads commonly mate with individuals of the same size and striping. What is this as example of? |
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| What is the mechanism of microevolution that may lead to the fixation of an allele? |
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| What is an example of a species that has undergone extreme bottle necking? |
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| A patchy environment favors which mode of natural selection? |
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| Variation in clones of snails is maintained in a population as a result of frequency-dependent selection |
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| Resistence to malaria is an example of what? |
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| What does natural selection do? |
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| Edits preexisting variation |
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| Who was the originator of the biological concept of species? |
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| Species of genus Rana may hybridize but zygotes generally do not develop. What is the RIM? |
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| The western striped skunk mates in late summer but the eastern striped skunk mates in late winter. What is the RIM? |
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| The shows and sounds of the frigate birds of the Galapagos are examples of what type of RIM? |
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| One species lives cheifly on the high slopes of a mountain whereas a different but closely related species lives on the lower slopes. What is the RIM? |
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| In the formation of an allopolyploid as a new species, the reproductive barrier that must be overcome in the F1 hybrid is what? |
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| A creeping glacier that may gradually divide a population and block gene flow is an example of a mode of speciation called what? |
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| Harris's antelope squirrel and the white-tailed antelope squirrel are 2 species that became insolated and diverged in different regions of where? |
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| In order to have effective meiosis, what must there be? |
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| Which species concept has been most widely used in fossil taxonomy? |
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| Cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika have speciated as a result of what? |
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| Species that have hbridized to the extent to produce F2 hybrids which are frail and have reduced fertility are reproductively isolated by what? |
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| Punctuated equilibrium supports what speciation pattern? |
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| The co-opting of a structure for a function different from its original intent is referred to as what? |
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| The 2nd duplication of Hox genes is considered to have allowed for the evolution of what in vertebrates? |
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| Gills in sexually mature adults is a phenomenon referred to as what? |
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| The shorter digits and more extensive webbing of tree-dwelling salamanders is the result of the phenomenon known as what? |
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| What are fossils such as footprints that show where a dinosaur once roamed known as? |
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| Fossils that are less than 50,000 years old could be dated most readily by what? |
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| Which time period had diversification of the early vascular plants? |
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| Where can volcanoes occur? |
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| When was the supercontinent Pangaea formed? |
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| Near the end of the Paleozoic era |
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| When did colonization of the land by fungi, nonvascular plants and early arthropods occur? |
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| Matching fossils or Triassic reptiles in West Africa and Brazil can be explained by which large land mass during the early Mesozoic era? |
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| The origin of most modern animal phyla occured during this explosion in what period? |
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| The diversification of bony fishes occurred during what period? |
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| Extensive forests of lower vascular plants dominated the land during which period? |
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| 90% of marine animals became extinct as well as a significant crash of terrestrial life during which late Paleozoic period? |
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| When was the "Age of Angiosperms" and the "Age of Mammals"? |
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| The radiation of dinosaurs began with a flourish of speciation during which period? |
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| Which 2 periods did dinosaurs rule the earth? |
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| When did most dinosaur lineages abruptly end? |
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| When was the radiation of mammals, birds and pollinating insects? |
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| In cladistic terminology, what is an ancestral/primitive characteristic? |
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| A taxon that includes an ancestor but only part of its descendants is what? |
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| What is the same evolutionary event that results from different ancestors in a cladogram? |
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