Mechanisms of Evolution and Evidence of Evolution

Question 1

Process that involves the following mechanisms: natural selection, genetic drift, artificial selection, mutation, migration or gene flow, and recombination

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Evolution

Question 2

It results in evolutionary change when some individuals in a population with certain traits have a higher survival

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Natural Selection

Question 3

It refers to the random change in the frequency of the gene

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Genetic Drift

Question 4

a large reduction in the size of the population that increases evolutionary change by genetic drift

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bottleneck

Question 5

technique in which the intervention of humans allow for only selected organisms to breed and produce offspring

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Artificial Selection

Question 6

Is the change in the DNA of an organism, random event

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Mutation

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Is the movement of populations, groups, or individual species

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Migration

Question 8

which is the movement of genetic characteristics from one population to another

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gene flow

Question 9

Is the exchange of segments between DNA molecules of chromosome

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Recombination

Question 10

Life’s history, which is often depicted as a branching tree called

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phylogeny

Question 11

the study of distribution of plants and animals in geographic space and through geologic time

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Biogeography

Question 12

Is the science that deals with the study of fossils.

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Paleontology

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Is the branch of biology that deals with the study of the structure and parts of organisms.

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Anatomy

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refers to the similarity of parts of different organisms caused by evolutionary derivation of a corresponding part from a remote ancestor.

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Homology

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Is the study of the development of an organism from conception to birth.

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Embryology