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Evolution Test Study Guide:
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Identify examples of artificial selection and natural selection
List the tenets of and explain the mechanism of natural selection
Identify a scenario as being directional, disruptive or stabilizing selection
Identify an isolating mechanism as being geographic, behavioral or temporal
Recognize that more recent fossils generally occur on top of older fossils
Define speciation
Explain plate tectonic theory
Use molecular sequence information (DNA, amino acids) to infer relatedness of
organisms
9. Use anatomical similarities and differences to infer relatedness of organisms
10. Describe evidence of evolution (fossils, embryos, geography, DNA, anatomy…)
11. Define, explain evolution
12. Interpret a cladogram
13. Identify the source(s) of variation upon which natural selection acts. What are the causes
of variation?
Important vocabulary:
Adaptation
Adaptive radiation
Analogous structure
Artificial selection
Behavioral isolation
Cladogram
Coevolution
Common ancestor
Convergent evolution
Crossing over
Directional selection
Disruptive selection
DNA
Embryos
Evolution
Fitness
Fossil
Gene pool
Genetic drift
Geographic isolation
Gradualism
Homologous structure
Hox genes
Index fossil
Meiosis
Mutations
Node (on a cladogram)
Natural selection
Punctuated equilibrium
Plate tectonics
Radiometric dating
Relative dating
Reproductive isolation
Sexual selection
Speciation
Species
Stabilizing selection
Temporal isolation
Theory
Variation
Vestigial structure