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Evolution Vocabulary
1. biogeography
2. comparative morphology
3. fossil
4. voyage of the beagle
5. population
6. gene pool
7. allele frequencies
8. genetic equilibrium
9. microevolution
10. mutation rate
11. lethal mutation
12. neutral (silent/synonymous) mutation
13. fitness
14. natural selection
15. Hardy-Weinberg rule/equation
* large population size
* random mating
* no selection
* no mutation
* no immigration/emigration
16. directional selection
17. stabilizing selection
18. disruptive selection (diversifying)
19. balanced polymorphism
20. gene flow
21. genetic drift
22. fixation
23. bottleneck
24. founder effect
25. inbreeding
26. speciation
27. biological species concept
28. reproductive isolating mechanisms
a. mechanical isolation
b. gametic isolation
c. hybrid inviability
d. behavioral isolation
e. temporal isolation
f. hybrid sterility
g. ecological isolation
29. allopatric speciation
30. industrial melanism
31. sympatric speciation
32. cline
33. polyploidy
34. parapatric speciation
35. subspecies
36. cladogenesis
37. anagenesis
38. evolutionary tree
39. gradualism
40. punctuated equilibrium
41. adaptive radiation
42. divergent evolution
43. adaptive zone
44. extinction
45. mass extinction
46. stratification of sedimentary rocks
47. geologic time scale
48. macroevolution
49. radiometric dating
50. relative dating
51. absolute dating
52. half-life
53. Pangea
54. plate tectonics theory
55. morphological divergence
56. analogous structures
57. homologous structures
58. morphological convergence
59. comparative biochemistry
60. nucleic acid hybridization
61. binomial nomenclature
62. phylogeny
63. Hierarchy of classification = K,P,C,O,F,G,Sp.
64. taxonomy
65. cladogram
66. derived trait
67. Six kingdom system of classification - briefly describe each
68. three domain system
69. Lamarck
70. A.R. Wallace
71. Charles Darwin
72. Paleontology
73. vestigial structure
74. sexual selection
75. Catastrophism
76. Malthus
77. convergent evolution
78. embryology