Beliefs prior to Darwin

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Chapter 22 - Descent with Modification

• Beliefs prior to Darwin
• Gradualism (Name two geologists)
• Lamarck
• Darwins research
• Darwins book
• Darwins theory (List major points)
• Examples of natural selection
• Homology, biogeography, fossil record
• What is a theory?

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Chapter 22 Vocabulary

• adaptation
• fitness
• taxonomy
• fossil
• catastrophism
• gradualism

artificial selection homology analogy vestigial bi
ogeography endemic.
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Chapter 23 - Evolution of Populations

• Modern synthesis of Darwin and _____
• Basic unit of evolution is the _____
• Gene pool and alleles
• Hardy-Weinberg equation
• H-W equilibrium - 5 sources of change
• Define fitness
• Name three kinds of natural selection
• Name two ways to preserve diversity
• Advantages and disadvantages of sex
• Why is nothing perfect?

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Chapter 23 Vocabulary

• population
• gene pool
• allele
• Hardy-Weinberg theorem
• Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
• Hardy-Weinberg equation

• mutation
• sexual recombination
• natural selection
• genetic drift
• bottleneck effect
• founder effect
• gene flow
• polymorphism.

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Chapter 24 - The Origin of Species

• Define species
• Allopatric speciation
• Sympatric speciation (3 causes)
• Adaptive radiation
• Punctuated equilibrium (2 scientists)
• Novelties
• Evo-devo
• Goal-oriented?

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Chapter 24 Vocabulary

• speciation
• microevolution
• macroevolution
• species
• prezygotic
• postzygotic
• autopolyploidy
• allopolypoidy

• allopatric speciation
• sympatric speciation
• adaptive radiation
• punctuated equilibrium
• allometric growth
• paedomorphosis
• homeotic genes.

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Chapter 25 - Phylogeny and Systematics

• Homology vs. analogy
• Binomial nomenclature (Name the guy)
• Hierarchical classification
• Define clade and cladogram
• Monophyletic, paraphyletic, polyphyletic
• Primitive vs. derived characters
• Parsimony
• Orthologous vs. paralogous genes
• Molecular clocks.

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Chapter 25 Vocabulary

• phylogeny
• systematics
• homology
• analogy
• homoplasy
• Dumb kings
• clade
• cladogram
• phylogram
• ultrametric tree

monophyletic paraphyletic polyphyletic parsimony o
rthologous paralogous molecular clock neutral
theory horizontal gene transfer.