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