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Evolution unit quiz STUDY GUIDE
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Vocabulary terms to know REALLY WELL (flash card material!)
Biological
evolution
Sexual selection
Natural selection
Scientific fact
Scientific theory
5 Mechanisms of evolution
Gene flow
Genetic drift
Mutation
population
Fossil
Fossil record
Evolutionary fitness
Analogous
structure
Amino acid
sequence
embryology
Vestigial structure
biogeography
Homologous
structure
DNA sequence
Overproduction
Environmental
pressure
Ancestral structure
Common ancestor
Derived
characteristic
Genetic variation
Allele
frequency
5 requirements for natural selection to
happen
species
Speciation
Phylogenetic tree
(cladogram)
Adaptation
4 Lines of evidence for evolution
Questions to be able to answer in your own words using scientific vocabulary:
1. Define biological evolution and give a specific example to support your definition.
2. Explain the difference between a scientific theory and a scientific fact.
3. Explain how the process of natural selection can cause a population to change over time, including the 5 specific
requirements.
4. Describe all 5 mechanisms that cause allele frequencies to change in populations over time.
5. Explain how speciation can happen and what it means to be distinct species.
6. Discuss all the lines of evidence that exist for evolution of life over time, give specific examples of each and chose the
category that is most convincing to you and explain why.