Exam 1 Flashcards
Lamarcks 2 Principals
Acquired Characteristics (structures become stronger or weaker due to use or disuse)
Creative Force (a striving in all species to become more complex)
Malthus
Survival of the Fittest
Haeckel
Biogenetic law
Darwin
Natural Selection
Monophyletic
An ancestor and every descendant
Paraphyletic
An ancestor and some decedents
Polyphyletic
A group without an ancestor included
Speciation
The act of lineage giving rise to a new lineage
Hennig
Shared homology is the only criteria to determine evolutionary history
Cladogenesis
When graph splits, lineage 1 ceases to exist
Synapomorphic
A shared derived character
Plesiomorphic
A primitive character
Autapomorphic
A character present in one taxon
Homology
Indenture due to shared ancestor
Homoplasy
Identity despite ancestors