Menti Questions Flashcards
A change in the genetic makeup of a population through time is called
evolution
Charles Darwin called differential survival and reproduction among individuals in a population ______
Natural Selection
Thorn on cacti (modified leaves) represent an example of ____
Adaptation
Toe pads and webbed feet on frogs are an example of ____
Structural Adaptation
Classification of organisms based on appearance alone is an example of ____
morphological species concept
If classifying phenotypically similar organisms by their phylogenetics then you are most likely applying the _____
lineage species concept
Developing separately due to land and decreased gene flow leading to reproductive isolation is called _____
Allopatric speciation
Similarities between bat and bird wings in an example of ______
Convergent evolution, homoplasy
Which species or event was required for sympatric speciation of the apple maggot fly?
Disruptive Selection
Two groups are partially reproductively isolated because the insects emerge at different times from pupae and at different times of the year, species will move to ______
Sympatric Speciation
_____ species of ferns are ____
95%;polyploid
Which is least likely to lead to geographic isolation and allopatric speciation
deep narrow river dividing population of humming birds
The apple and hawthorn groups of rhagoletis flies display both behavioral isolation and ______ isolation
temporal
Sperm of one fish are chemically incompatible with closely related fish, reproductive isolation barrier is _______
Gamete isolation
Suppose one species of beetles prefers living/mating in grass and another species in sand, this is an example of
habitat, prezygotic
Population A has 10,000, B has 1,000, and C has 100. A decrease in deleterious alleles will most likely occur in what population due to genetic drift
C
An allele causes F to favor M with longer antennae, if the allele becomes more prevalent it will affect which evolutionary force
Sexual selection
In mendels peas tall and short variants occur at a single locus with tall dom to short, height of a plant is its ______, difference between tall and short is caused by _______
phenotype;alleles
Drosphilia Yakuba and D. Santomea are each others oldest relatives, they are _____ species
sister
On a phylogeny, which lineages share the most synapomorphies
those most closely connected
Suppose there’s a newly developed lineage between lineage containing lizards and pigeons, what is most likely true?
it has keratinous scales but does not have a gizzard
