Week 8B - Natural Selection, Convergence and Divergence in Evolution

Question 1

What is evolution?

Answer 1

Change in genes/gene products of a population of organisms through successive generations

Question 2

What are the two main processes of evolution?

Answer 2

• Natural selection

- Genetic Drift

Question 3

What is Darwinian Evolution

Answer 3

Survivors with differences will pass on these differences

Question 4

What is a vestigial organ?

Answer 4

A functionless version of a body part that has a function in other closely related species

Question 5

What is science?

Answer 5

System of acquiring knowledge through scientific method and research

Question 6

What is the scientific method?

Answer 6

An attempt to explain nature in a reproducible way and to use these reproductions to make useful predictions

Question 7

What is divergent evolution?

Answer 7

Accumulation of difference between groups that lead to the formation of a new species

Question 8

What is convergent evolution?

Answer 8

Acquisition of the same biological train in unrelated lineages