Adaptaion Quiz-Reproductive Isolation Flashcards
What is adaptation?
Fitness of an organism, able to survive and reproduce.
What is structural?
Involves body parts.
What is camouflage?
Hiding by blending in with background.
What is mimicry?
Copying body parts (batesian)
What are the two butterflies that looked alike?
Monarch and Viceroy butterfly.
Which butterfly tasted good and which tasted bad?
The Viceroy tasted good and the Monarch tasted bad and bitter.
Which butterfly is favored
Viceroy
What are Physiological organisms?
Changes it metabolism to survive (physiology function)
What is an example of a Physiological organism?
Bacteria adjusted to different doses of Penicillin and is now used to it.
What are behavioral organisms?
Change their behavior to survive. (courtship and mating behaviors)
Who discovered socio biology?
E.O Wilson
What is a gene pool?
All the genes for a population ( all possible genes for a species)
What are alleles?
Options for genes (another word for genes)
What is genetic equilibrium?
All of the genes coming into a population equal all of the genes coming out of the population (in=out)
What are the cause of changes in the genetic equilibrium?
Mutations, genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection.
What are Mutations?
Change in DNA, adds variety (Devines)
What is genetic drift?
(Chance occurrence) swell-wright/random hurricane Katrina.
What types of people did 911 affect?
White men in their 30’s
What is Gene Flow?
Immigration and emigration
What is natural selection?
Nature chooses who survives and who doesn’t.
What is the Hardy-Weinberg Law?
Constant population= no mutations, no genetic drift, no gene flow, random mating, and a large population
What is speciation?
How species are formed.
What is a species?
A group of interbreeding organisms that share a gene pool
What is geographic Isolation? What is an example? Another name?
Same species are separated by a physical boundary. Drawings finches. Allopatric speciation. (Other father land, dumbbell shaped)
