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EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY Flashcards

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a tool that provides a visual summary of a complex set of scientific data, linking taxonomy with evolutionary relationships

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evolutionary trees

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line of descent from a common ancestor

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evolutionary lineage

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3
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places where two groups diverge at a branch point

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node

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anatomical features that group of organisms have in common

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shared characteristics

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5
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population of a species is separated into two areas by:

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geography
clomate

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conditions that exert natural selection on an organism at its particular stage in life

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Selection pressures

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7
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More likely to survive

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Greater fitness

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8
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More likely to survive

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Greater fitness

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9
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More likely to die

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Lower fitness

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10
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Process that produce new species

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Speciation

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Two different populations of the same species that interbreeds but display different phenotypes

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Race

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12
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Populations are unable to interbreed can lead to separate species

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Reproductive isolation

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13
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Conditions that prevent two organisms to breed

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Reproductive barriers

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Pre-mating barriers

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Geographical
Temporal
Mechanical
Behavioral

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15
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Post mating barriers

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Hybrid inviability
Hybrid sterility

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16
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Early living thing is a modification of the genetic info inherited from parents

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Descent with modification

17
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Species have branched or radiated into numerous lineages each with many species

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Adaptive radiations

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Physical evidences of organisms that lived in the past

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Fossils

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Evidence of an organisms’ activity like footprints

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Trace fossils

20
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Extermination of a species

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Extinction

21
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Death of all individuals

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Mass extinction

22
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When a species died out in a region but not globally

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Local extinction

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