Vocab

Question 1

Adaptation

Answer 1

A genetically inherited trait that increases an organisms fitness

Question 2

Convergent evolution

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Is the independent evolution of similar traits in different species

Question 3

Pleiotrophy

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When changes in one trait lead to changes in other traits or trait

Question 4

Exaltation

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A trait that is being used for a different reason that the original reason it evolved

Question 5

Vestigial

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Traits that used to be used for something. But no longer serve that function

Question 6

Bipedal

Answer 6

Walking on two feet

Question 7

Trade offs

Answer 7

You cannot be good at everything; being good at one thing means you have less energy to invest in another

Question 8

Evolutionary mismatch

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When an adaptation is no longer helpful because the environment changed

Question 9

Adaptation plasticity

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Is passed down from a parent to child

Question 10

Phenotypic plasticity

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Is when an individuals phenotype changes because the environment changes

Question 11

Reciprocal transplant experiment

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Is when you swap populations between two environments to see how it affects their fitness

Question 12

Asexual reproduction

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When you reproduce by making clones of yourself

Question 13

Sexual reproduction

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When you reproduce by mixing your genes with another individuals genes

Question 14

Life history

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Is all the steps in an individuals life

Question 15

Behavior

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Is how individual organisms respond to changes in their abiotic and biotic environment

Question 16

Ultimate explanations

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Of behavior explain why the behavior evolved

Question 17

Proximate explanations

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Of behavior explain how the behavior works

Ex: what is going on in the inside of the individual and it’s environment that gets them to display that behavior

Question 18

Individual selection

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Some individuals are more fit than others; they pass on more of their genetic variation than others

Question 19

Group selection

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Some groups of individuals are more fit than other groups; the genetic variation in the group is passed on more

Question 20

Coevolution

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When species evolve in response to each other because they interact with each other