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Question 1

Darwins 4 postulates:

Answer 1

(VIST) Variation, Inheritability, Selection, Time

Question 2

One process of evolution that changes allele frequency in a random way is ________, whereas _______ changes allele frequency in a non-random way.

Answer 2

Random: Mutation, Recombination, genetic Drift, Gene flow
Nonrandom: Sexual selection, Natural selection

Question 3

New Synthesis

Answer 3

Merger of evolution with mathematics, systematics, genetics, and paleontology

Question 4

Darwin drew an analogy between human-caused selective breeding for desired traits by breeding _____ and what happens in nature that he called ________-

Answer 4

Pigeons

Natural selection

Question 5

In cladistics, ______ is an ancestral species and all of its descendents

Answer 5

Clade

Question 6

Maximum parsimony is based on the principle of _______

Answer 6

Occams Razor

Question 7

Tree reliability involves random reshuffling of the coded data known as ________

Answer 7

Bootstrapping

Question 8

LUCA

Answer 8

Last Universal Common Ancestor

Question 9

Retained traits that change little or not at all over long periods among descendents of an ancestor are called _______- traits

Answer 9

conserved traits

Question 10

Evolutionary reversal is a form of _______.

Answer 10

Homoplasy