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What causes speciation?

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Various evolutionary processes and geographical circumstances

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What provides a population’s genetic variance?

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Gene pool

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What constitutes a population’s gene pool?

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All the alleles of all genes of each individual in that population

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Define microevolution

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The change in percentages, or frequencies, of alleles within populations. These are the small events that lead to evolution within a population

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What five processes can cause allele frequencies to change and microevolution to occur?

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Mutation, gene flow (migration), non-random mating, genetic drift, natural selection

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What is the most significant factor in the formation of new species?

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Natural selection

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Give an example of mutation causing selective advantage

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Norway’s rats are resistant to poison warfarin

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Give an example of speciation

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The Galápagos Islands iguana can swim

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What is notable about people with blue eyes?

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All people originate from a common ancestor. This is neither a positive nor negative mutation

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Describe gene flow

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The net movement of alleles from one population to another as a result of migration

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Give an example of gene flow

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Grey wolves travel great distances to find a neighbouring pack and mate with an individual in that pack. This introduces new alleles into the distant pack

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Describe non-random mating

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Mating among individuals on the basis of a particular phenotype or due to inbreeding. In animals, individuals may choose mates based on their physical or behavioural characteristics, affecting the alleles in the gene pool of the next generation

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How does inbreeding occur?

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When closely related individuals breed, either naturally or by human-led breeding programs

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Give an example of non-random mating and its consequence

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The Chinese shar-pei dog has an inherited genetic mutation, enhanced by inbreeding, that increases the production of hyaluronic acid, contributing to a skin disorder called mucinosis

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Give an example of non-random mating and it’s benefit

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The pea flower can self-fertilize which helps if the plant is not able to reproduce sexually via pollination from an insect

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Describe genetic drift

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The change in frequencies of alleles due to random events in a small breeding population. The smaller the population, the less likely it is that the parent gene pool will be reflected in the next generation

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What intensifies the effects of genetic drift?

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The failure of a few individuals to reproduce

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Which famous person suffered from non-random mating and how?

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King Charles II of Spain became severely disabled (Hapsburg jaw)

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Describe the founder effect

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Often new populations in areas like islands are formed by only a few individuals. They carry some of the alleles from the original population’s gene pool. Inevitably, the gene pool is reduced

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Give an example of the founder effect

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Polydactylism in Amish communities in Philadelphia

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Describe the bottleneck effect

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If a population is quickly reduced by starvation, disease, or a natural catastrophe, the surviving population likely only has a fraction of the alleles that were present before the population declined. The gene pool will have lost its diversity and allele frequencies will have changed

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What types of natural selection change allele frequency?

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Stabilizing selection, directional selection, disruptive selection

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Describe stabilizing selection

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Favours an intermediate phenotype and acts against extreme variants of it. This improves adaptation of the population to aspects of the environment that remain fairly constant

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Describe directional selection

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Favours the phenotypes at one extreme over the other. This type of selection is common during times of environmental change or when a population migrates to a new habitat

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Describe disruptive selection

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Favours two extremes of a population. As a result, intermediate phenotypes can be eliminated from a population

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Describe sexual selection

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Involves the competition between males through combat or visual displays. It also includes choices females make in mates

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What term is used for males and females of a species that look markedly different?

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Sexual dimorphism

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What is another word for speciation?

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Macroevolution

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Define speciation

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The formation of new species from existing species. Two populations become reproductively isolated over time if there is little or no gene flow between them. Without gene flow, the populations may become different species

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What prevents gene flow in a population?

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Reproductive isolating mechanisms

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What are the two types of reproductive isolating mechanisms?

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Pre-zygotic and post-zygotic

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What are the main branches of pre-zygotic reproductive isolating mechanisms?

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Prevention of mating, prevention of fertilization

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Give factors relating to the prevention of mating

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Behavioural isolation, temporal isolation, ecological/habitat isolation

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What type of post-zygotic reproductive isolating mechanism is there?

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Prevention of hybrids

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Give factors relating to the prevention of hybrids FIX THIS!!

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Zygotic mortality, hybrid inviability, hybrid infertility

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Describe pre-zygotic isolating mechanisms

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Mechanisms which either impede mating between species or prevent fertilization of the eggs of individuals from different species to mate

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Describe behavioural isolating mechanisms

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Any special signals or behaviours that are species-specific to prevent interbreeding with closely related species

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Give an example of a behavioural isolating mechanism

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Eastern meadowlark and Western meadowlark have similar habits but differences in songs and thus, do not mate

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Describe temporal isolating mechanisms

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Two species may occupy the same habitat and have timing barriers

40
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Give an example of a temporal isolating mechanism

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Tropical orchids live in the same area but flower on different days. This prevents fertilization among the orchid types

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Describe habitat isolating mechanisms

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Two species may live in the same general region but in different habitats, so they may rarely encounter each other

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Describe mechanical isolating mechanisms

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Two closely related species may attempt to mate but are unsuccessful due to anatomical incompatibility

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Give an example of a mechanical isolating mechanism

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The genitals of some insects operate in a kind of lock and key system, they are so distinctive that they prevent successful fertilization of other species

44
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Describe gametic isolating mechanisms

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Gametes from two different species may meet but do not fuse to form a zygote

45
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Give an example of gametic isolating mechanisms

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The sperm of one species may not be able to survive in the environment of the female reproductive tract of another species

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Describe post-zygotic isolating mechanisms

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In rare cases, the sperm and egg of different species produce a zygote. They prevent such hybrids from developing into viable, fertile individuals. Thus, the original two parental species are proven to be separate species

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Describe zygotic mortality

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Genetic incompatibility of the interbred species may stop development of the hybrid zygote

48
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Give an example of zygotic mortality

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Embryos from these species die in early development due to dysfunctional mitosis

49
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Describe hybrid inviability

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The original two-species cross produces viable and fertile hybrid offspring. However, the mating hybrids cannot produce viable and fertile offspring

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What is another word for hybrid sterility?

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Infertility

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Describe hybrid infertility

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The hybrid offspring is sterile, representing a reproductive barrier

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Give an example of hybrid sterility

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Female horses and make donkeys produce mules that are sterile due to dysfunctional mitosis

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What are the types of speciation?

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Sympatric speciation, allopatric speciation

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Describe sympatric speciation

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More common in plants than animals, chromosomal changes in plants or non-random mating in animals alters gene flow. The result is reproductive incompatibility without geographical isolation

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Give an example of sympatric speciation

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An error in cell division of polyploidy plants results in an extra set of chromosomes in the offspring. How reproductively and genetically isolated, the plant may self-fertilize to survive

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Describe allopatric speciation

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Speciation occurs when a population is split into two or more isolated groups by a geographical barrier. Eventually, the gene pool of the split population becomes so distinct due to natural selection, mutations, and gene flow that the two groups are unable to interbreed when reintroduced

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Give an example of allopatric speciation

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Finches may have been blown to an island that was uninhabited. They adapted to an unoccupied ecological niche and over time, evolve into a new species

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Define adaptive radiation

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When the common ancestral species diversifies into a variety of differently adapted species

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Give an example of adaptive radiation

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Different-sized red crossbill birds have different beaks that can open different- sized cones

60
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Where is adaptive radiation seen most readily?

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Island chains

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Describe divergent evolution

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A pattern of evolution in which species that were once similar to ancestral species become increasingly distinct

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Describe convergent evolution

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A pattern of evolution in which similar traits arise because different species have independently adapted to similar environmental conditions

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Give an example of convergent evolution

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Wings on birds and bats. Natural selection favoured flight among these species, but they do not share a common ancestor. Their wings thus evolved differently from different structures

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What are the models proposed to explain the speed at which evolution occurs?

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Gradualism and punctuated equilibrium

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Describe gradualism

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Views evolutionary change as slow and steady, before and after a divergence. Big changes occur by the accumulation of small changes. This has been supported since Darwin’s time

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Describe punctuated equilibrium

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Views evolutionary history as long periods of stasis that are interrupted by periods of divergence. Proposed by Eldredge and Jay Gould in 1972

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Which model of evolutionary change is accepted?

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Both gradualism and punctuated equilibrium

68
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Give examples of human-made barriers that result in allopatric speciation

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Conversion of wilderness into cropland, development of areas for tourism, building urban subdivisions and roads

69
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What are the outcomes of human activities with regards to wildlife

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Speciation through: adaptive radiation after geographical isolation, genetic drift after bottleneck affect; species endangerment due to insufficient genetic diversity from population isolation

70
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Give an example of insufficient genetic diversity from population isolation leading to endangerment

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Giant panda

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Describe mass extinctions

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A decrease in the number of species. This allows for adaptive radiation of surviving species that may evolve. Thus, the general trend is an increase in species over time

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