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Evolution Basics
Facts on Darwin and the basic priniciples of the Theory of Evolution
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2010

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Where was Darwin born and when?
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1809 Shrewsbury, England
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Name the two colleges Darwin attended
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Edinburgh Med School & Christs College Cambridge
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H.M.S Beagle Captain
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Captain Fitsroy
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Darwin's Job on the beagle
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Naturalist
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Darwin's Mentor at Cambridge
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Reverend John Henslow
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what did Darwin see that prompted his theories?
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The fossil lines in the mountains
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Name of Darwin's House
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Down house
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What Naturalist independently developed the same ideas as Darwin?
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Elfrid Wallace
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Population
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all members of the same species within a given space at a given time
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Gene Pool
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all the alleles found within a population of organisms
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Bio Elvolution
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cumulative change in the characteristics in gene frequency of a population over time
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Theory of common descent
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all organisms on earth today re descendants of a single acestor that arose in the distant past
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microevolution
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only has changes within a popultion
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macroevolution
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pattern which producs new species
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mututaion
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change in DNA. Produces new alleles.
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gene flow
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sharing genes between two isolated populations
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genetic drift
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random changes in th allele frequency of a population
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bottleneck affect
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population size is reduced and then it recovers
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founder effect
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colonization of an area by a limited number of individuals who by chance have different allele frequencies than the parent population
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natural selection
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individuals that posses certain traits have a great survival and reproductive success then those that dont.
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artificial selection
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selective breeding of domesticated animals and plants to increase the frequency of desirable characteristics.
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quantative traits
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controlled by one or more pair of alleles
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directional selection
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selection for one extreme phenotype. on one side of the bell curve or the other
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stabilizing selection
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selection for the average phenotype
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diversifying selection
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selection for both extreme phenotypes
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speciation
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the originatin of a new species
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allopatric speciation
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new spcies occurs due to separation of species because of natural barriers
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sympatric speciation
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new species formed within an occuring species but not because of a geographic barrier
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falsifiability
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a good hypothesis has this. it can be proven wrong through testing
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irreducible complexity
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idea that certain biological systems are too complez to have evolved from simpler or less complete predecessors
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Principle of NOMA
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Non-Overlapping Magisteria: science and religion do not overlap and conflict.
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