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1
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What is Evolution?

A

Change overtime

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Organic Evolution

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inherited change in the properties of groups of organisms over the course of generations

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What is another word for “organic evolution”?

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descent with modifiaction

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What are populations?

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groups of comspecific organisms that occupy a defined geographic region and have reproductive continuity from generation to generation

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what are conspecific organisms?

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individuals or populations that belong to the same species

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What are Lineages?

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series of ancestral and descendant populations through time

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What is DIvergence?

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evolution of incresing differences between lineages

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What is a hypothesis?

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informed conjecture of what might be true

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What is a scientific Theory?

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comprehensive and coherent, based on reasoning and evidence, that explain some aspect of nature

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Example of a scientific Theory

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Gravity ! !

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Does correlation = causation?

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NO

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What is an ultimate cause?

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deeper reason why events occur, behvaiors encoded by genes that are inheritable (evolutionary)

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what are proximate causes responsible for?

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directly responsible to events, the reason it occurs

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14
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organismal lineages __________

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change over generations

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evolution leads to _____________

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diversification of lineages

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16
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All known organisms share ___________

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common descent

17
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________ is necessary for evolutionary change

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variation

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_________ gives rise to variation

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genetic differences

19
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change is caused by _____ and _________

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deterministic and random processes

20
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evolutionary processes depend on ________

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propeties of organisms

21
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__________ are __________

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rates of change are heterogeneous

22
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What is meant by rates of change are heterogeneous?

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traits do not evolve at similar rates

23
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What are deterministic processes?

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not random. like natural selection

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What are random processes?

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mutation and historical contigency

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