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Study Guide for Evolution
1. What causes variation in a population?
2. What are adaptations and how might they change?
3. What does the fossil records tell us?
4. What is carbon dating?
5. What the definition of evolution?
6. Who was Charles Darwin and what ideas did he develop?
7. What is the theory of natural selection?
8. What is the difference between gradualism and punctuated equilibrium?
9. What is adaptive radiation?
10. What are the differences between homologous, vestigial, and analogous structures?
11. Explain the three types of evolution (divergent, convergent, and co-evolution).
12. What is an allele frequency?
13. What are the conditions needed for Hardy-Weinbergs Equilibrium to work?
14. What are the differences between directional selection and disruptive selection?
15. Know and understand the vocabulary terms
16. Know how to use Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Principle
Study Guide Classification
1. What is Taxonomy?
2. What is the hierarchy levels of an organism, in order?
3. Who was Carl von Linne?
4. What characteristics helps us divide organisms into kingdoms?
5. What are the five kingdoms?
6. Give two examples of organisms found in each kingdom.
7. What is Binomial nomenclature?
8. How would you write the genus, species of a human?
9. How is a phylogenic tree organized?
10. What does it mean to use biochemistry to classify organisms?
11. What is a dichotomous key, and how does it work?
12. Know how to use a dichotomous key.