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Adaptaion Quiz-Reproductive Isolation Flashcards

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What is adaptation?

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Fitness of an organism, able to survive and reproduce.

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What is structural?

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Involves body parts.

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What is camouflage?

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Hiding by blending in with background.

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What is mimicry?

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Copying body parts (batesian)

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What are the two butterflies that looked alike?

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Monarch and Viceroy butterfly.

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Which butterfly tasted good and which tasted bad?

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The Viceroy tasted good and the Monarch tasted bad and bitter.

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Which butterfly is favored

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Viceroy

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What are Physiological organisms?

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Changes it metabolism to survive (physiology function)

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What is an example of a Physiological organism?

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Bacteria adjusted to different doses of Penicillin and is now used to it.

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What are behavioral organisms?

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Change their behavior to survive. (courtship and mating behaviors)

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Who discovered socio biology?

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E.O Wilson

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What is a gene pool?

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All the genes for a population ( all possible genes for a species)

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What are alleles?

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Options for genes (another word for genes)

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What is genetic equilibrium?

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All of the genes coming into a population equal all of the genes coming out of the population (in=out)

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What are the cause of changes in the genetic equilibrium?

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Mutations, genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection.

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What are Mutations?

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Change in DNA, adds variety (Devines)

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What is genetic drift?

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(Chance occurrence) swell-wright/random hurricane Katrina.

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What types of people did 911 affect?

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White men in their 30’s

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What is Gene Flow?

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Immigration and emigration

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What is natural selection?

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Nature chooses who survives and who doesn’t.

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What is the Hardy-Weinberg Law?

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Constant population= no mutations, no genetic drift, no gene flow, random mating, and a large population

22
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What is speciation?

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How species are formed.

23
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What is a species?

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A group of interbreeding organisms that share a gene pool

24
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What is geographic Isolation? What is an example? Another name?

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Same species are separated by a physical boundary. Drawings finches. Allopatric speciation. (Other father land, dumbbell shaped)

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What is reproductive isolation? What is another name for this?
Who is associated with this?

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Formerly interbreeding organisms prevented from reproducing. (Seasonal, different breeding seasons). Synpatric. Wallace

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