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BIOL 3030 Exam III
Exam 3 armbruster
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
10/30/2012

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Selection gradient
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The slope of relationship of phentype values and fitness
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Phenotypic plasticity
Definition
Genotype has capacity to produce several phenotypes
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Ecological isolation
Definition
Breed at different times of year
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Transactional model of reproductive skew
Definition
Dominant individuals gain assistance from subordinate helpers and pay them by allowing them to reproduce just a bit more than if they left the group
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Fitness
Definition
average per capita rate of population increase
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Phylogenetic constraints
Definition
evolutionary history may not give you variation
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Sensory Bias
Definition
Female preference may evolve before preferrred male trait
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Exaptiation
Definition
Characteristic co-opted to serve another function
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Gonochorisitc
Definition
Having separate sexes
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Vicariance
Definition
Splitting a large population into two or more
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Example of heterzygote advantage
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Sickle cell
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Phenotypic variance due to
Definition
combination of phenotypic and environmental variance
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Behavioral isolation
Definition
specific mate recognition systems-signals and responses of potential mates
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Postmating-Prezygotic barriers
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Mating occurs but fertilization doesn't
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Mechnical isolation
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Genitalia might not match which stops male gametes from transferring
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Copulatory behavioral isolation
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fertilization fales because of behavior during mating or genitali stimulated improperly
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Gametic isolation
Definition
gametes fail to unite
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Extrinsic
Definition
Hybrid fitness depends on context
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Ecological inviability
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Hybrids don't have a niche
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Behavioral sterility
Definition
hybrids less successful in obtaining mates
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Intrinsic
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Hybrid fitness always low
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Hybrid inviability
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hybrids often don't survive
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Hybrid sterility
Definition
Structural difference in chromosomes can cause aneuploidy in meiosis
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Haldanes rule
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Sterility may be limited to heterogametic sex
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Coalescent theory
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Genetic drift will eventually result in coalescence to different haplotypes in species lineage sorting
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Hybrid zone
Definition
Area where two species come together and some individuals are of mixed ancestry
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Allopatric speciation
Definition
some kind of barrier develops that splits a population
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Vicariance
Definition
splits large population in two or more
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Peripatric speciation
Definition
peripheral isolate diverges
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parapatric speciation
Definition
neighboring populations that have little gene flow become reproductively isolated
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sympatric speciation
Definition
reproductive isolation evolves in single, randomly mating population
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Allopatry
Definition
Most likely form of speciation
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Polyploids
Definition
More than two complements of chromosomes
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Instantaneous speciation
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polyploids would be instantly isolated from others
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Semelparity
Definition
reproduce one and then die
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R=LM
Definition
Reproductive success= probability of survivle to reproductive age * average number of offspring per survivor
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Iteroparity
Definition
Reproduce more than once
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lx
Definition
probability of survive to year X
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R=lxmx
Definition
Reproductive success= probability of surviving to year x * number of offspring per survivor
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Phylogenetic constraints
Definition
Evolutionary history may not give you variation
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Physiological or genetic constraints
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Increase in fecundity may effect other traits
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Anisogamy
Definition
having separate sexes defined by size of their gametes
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Isogamy
Definition
usually different mating types
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Benefits of sex
Definition
Repair damaged DNA, Sampling comepetition, Adaptations to fluctuating environments
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Canalization
Definition
advantageous to be constant regardless of environment
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Preadaptation
Definition
characteristic that fortuitously serves a new function
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Exaptation
Definition
characterisitc co-opted to serve new function
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Directional selection
Definition
One extreme phenotype preferred
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Stabilizing selection
Definition
Middle phenotypes selected
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Diversifying
Definition
Extreme phenotypes selected
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