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| What is natural selection? |
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| How evolution occurs/ over production and competition |
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| How are evolution and natural selection related? |
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| organisms changing over generations |
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| How does natural selection occure? |
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| individuals with certain heritable traits leave more offspring then others. |
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| What does inheritance of acquired traits mean? |
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| Frequency of traits suited to the environment increase a population |
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| Who proposed the inheritance of acquired traits therory? |
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| What is evidence of evolution |
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| Fossils ~ Biogeography ~ Comparative Anatomy ~ Comparative Embryology ~ Moleculer Biology |
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| What creates variation is a population? |
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Mutations: New Alleles
Sexual reproduction: New Combinations |
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| Is variation in a population planned or does it occur randomly? |
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In Natural Selection which is more important:
A long life or reproductive success? |
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| What is the Hardy-Weinberg equilibruim? |
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| Population stays the same |
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| a change in gene frequency within a population |
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| What causes microevolution? |
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| Change in the # of homozygotes and hetrozygotes from generation to generation (a change in the overall population, doesn't produce a new species). |
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