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| What is the term for human breeding in evolutionary theory? |
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| What do biologists mean by evolution and what is the term for what most people think of as evolution? |
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A change in frequency of alleles in a population over time.
Speciation |
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| What are the four components of the theory of Natural Selection, and what are the requirements for this theory to work? |
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Components
- Excess of offspring
- Scarcity in resources --> competition
- Variation creates differential dying and divergence
- Inheritence (those that live pass genes on)
Requirements
- Particulate inheritence
- Mutation
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Besides natural selection, what other idea did Darwin come up with as a mechanism to explain evolution?
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| What are four refinements to the theory of Natural Selection that hep us explain how evolution occurs? |
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Statistical analysis of population biologist
Genetic revolution (understanding)
Periferal isolates
Genetic drift and bottlenecks |
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| What are five pieces of evidence that support the idea that species on the planet have evolved? |
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Comparativ anatomy
Non-Optimal design
Geographical distilation of organissms
Artificial selection
Fossil record |
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| What three aspects of evolution make the argument of irreducible complexity invalid? |
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Improvements become necessities
"Loss of Scaffolding"
Duplication and divergence |
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