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AP Biology STUDY GUIDE: Evolution KEY TERMS
~ Jean Baptist de Lamarck
~ inheritance of acquired characteristics
~ Charles Lyell
~ Alfred Russell Wallace
~ Charles Darwin
~ natural selection
~ survival of the fittest
~ variation
~ evidence for evolution
* Geologic (fossils, paleontology, biogeography)
* Developmental (homologous & analogous structures, vestigial structures)
* Biochemical (embryology, biochemistry, DNA, artificial selection)
~ species/speciation
* allopatric/sympatric speciation
~ gene pool
~ allelic frequency
~ genetic equilibrium
~ genotype frequencies
~ genetic drift
~ mutation pressure
~ gene flow
~ bottleneck effect
~ founder effect
~ selection pressure
~ heterozygote advantage
~ directional selection
~ disruptive selection
~ stabilizing selection
~ adaptation
~ fitness
~ sexual selection/polymorphism
~ microevolution/macroevolution
~ phylogeny
~ Isolation mechanisms
*prezygotic/postzygotic isolation mechanisms
* geographic isolation
* ecological(habitat) isolation
* temporal(seasonal) isolation
* behavioral isolation
* mechanical isolation
* gametic isolation
* developmental isolation
* hybrid inviability/sterility
~ evolutionary bottleneck
~ punctuated equilibrium vs. gradualism
~ radioactive dating
~ convergent evolution
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