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Evolution Test Study Guide – Terms/Concepts
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Progression of early ideas about evolution
Ussher, Cuvier, Hutton, Lyell, Lamarck, Darwin, Gould
- Concept of immutable, catastrophism, altruism, gradualism, uniformitarianism, inheritance of acquired
traits, natural selection
Concept of natural selection versus artificial selection
- survival of the fittest, concept of adaptation
- examples of evidence of evolution eg.- fossil records, molecular record, homologous vs. analogous features,
embryological development, vestigial structures, etc..
Patterns of selection – altruism, sexual, stabilizing, natural, cumulative, directional, and disruptive selection
Evolutionary change without selection – genetic drift, gene flow, bottleneck effect, founder effect
Hardy-Weinberg principle – conditions, purpose of calculations, limitations
Speciation
- allopatric versus sympatric
- reproductive isolating mechanisms
o prezygotic mechanisms (ecological, temporal, behavioural, mechanical, gametic isolation)
o postzygotic mechanisms ) zygotic immortality, hybrid inviability and hybrid infertility)
- macroevolution versus microevolution
Divergent and convergent evolution
- adaptive radiation
- coevolution
- cumulative selection
Phylogeny – interpret phylogenetic trees (cladograms)
Gradualism versus punctuated equilibrium
Human evolution
Chapter 7 review questions: # 1-9, 11-17, 20, 21, 23-26, 28, 30, 34, 37, 39, 40, 46, 48, 57-59, 61-63, 66, 67
(pages 318-323)
Chapter 8 review questions: # 1-5, 8-10, 12, 15, 17-24, 29, 30, 33, 34, 36, 37, 39, 41, 46-48, 50, 52, 53, 55-57, 69
(pages 372-377)