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What type of data can help us learn more about convergent evolution?
Fossils
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What was the single largest continent called?
Pangea
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What are examples of past down genetic traits?
Facial features, height, voice, hair color
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What is a population?
A group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area in interbreed, producing fertile offspring
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Who was the first to explore the implications of sexual selection?
Charles Darwin
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How long ago did the earliest cetaceans live?
50-60 million years ago
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How long ago did Pangaea begin to break apart?
200 millions years ago
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How can genetic variants be produced?
Genetic variants can be produced rapidly in organisms with short generation times, also by sexual reproduction
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How do we characterize a populations genetic make up?
Gene pools
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What can sexual selection result in?
Sexual dimorphism
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What is The group of mammals mainly talked about during convergent evolution?
Marsupials
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What is the most popular guess of how distribution of species came to be?
Continental drift
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What does phenotypic variation not do?
Phenotypic variation does not result from the genetic differences among individuals
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What are the two categories of individuals alleles?
Homozygous and Heterozygous
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What is one way sexual selection operates?
One way it can occur is among males controlling a group of females from eating with other males or defending off the other males
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What is an example of convergent evolution that is well known?
Sugar gliders that are very similar to flying squirrels.
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What is the definition of endemic?
Found nowhere else in the world
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Who wrote the groundbreaking paper on inheritance in pea plants, before Darwin published his book?
Gregor Mendel
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What person has an equation named after them while trying to find factors of evolution?
Hardy Weinberg
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What is another name for intersexual selection?
Mate choice
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What is the definition of convergent evolution?
The independent evolution of similar features in different lineages.
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Who made the “origin of species?”
Charles Darwin
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What did Mendel propose in his paper?
A model of inheritance in which organisms transmit discrete heritable units to their offspring
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What fields of study was Weinberg and what type of physician was Hardy Weinberg?
Mathematician and a German physician
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What is One example of the females intersexual selection?
The female choice depends on the showiness of the males appearance or behavior
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