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| 6716240860 | natural selection | A population can change over time if individuals with more fit traits leave more offspring than less fit individuals. |  | 0 |
| 6716240861 | evolutionary adaptation | An accumulation of inherited characteristics that enhance organisms' ability to survive and reproduce in specific environments. |  | 1 |
| 6716240862 | artificial selection | Humans modifying species for desired traits through selective breeding. |  | 2 |
| 6716240863 | fitness | better chance of surviving in a given environment and will leave more offspring. | 3 | |
| 6716240864 | homologous structures | Same structure, different function. Comes from common ancestor. |  | 4 |
| 6716240865 | analogous structures | Different structure, same function. Comes from common environmental challenges, NOT common ancestor. |  | 5 |
| 6716240866 | vestigial structures | Are little or no importance to organism, but remain from an ancestor. |  | 6 |
| 6716240867 | population | Group of individuals of the same species living in the same area. |  | 7 |
| 6716240868 | gene pool | All the genes in a given population at a given time. |  | 8 |
| 6716240869 | allele frequency | Proportion of an allele in a gene pool. |  | 9 |
| 6716240870 | Hardy-Weinberg Theorem | Helps measure changes in allele frequencies over time . Provides an "ideal" population to use as a basis of comparison. |  | 10 |
| 6716240871 | mutation | Changes in nucleotide sequence in DNA. |  | 11 |
| 6716240872 | genetic drift | Change in allele frequencies due to chance, not natural selection. |  | 12 |
| 6716240873 | bottleneck effect | When a population has been dramatically reduced, and the gene pool is no longer reflective of the original population's. |  | 13 |
| 6716240874 | founder effect | When a small number of individuals colonize a new area; new gene pool not reflective of original population. |  | 14 |
| 6716240875 | gene flow | When a population gains or loses alleles, movement of alleles into or out of a population due to the migration of individuals to or from the population. |  | 15 |
| 6716240876 | genetic variation | Heritable variations in a population. |  | 16 |
| 6716240877 | heterozygous advantage | Maintains recessive alleles in a population. (example: sickle cell anemia resistance to malaria) |  | 17 |
| 6716240878 | sexual selection | Natural selection for mating success. |  | 18 |
| 6716240879 | directional selection | Natural selection in which individuals at one end of the phenotypic range survive or reproduce more successfully than do other individuals. |  | 19 |
| 6716240880 | stabilizing selection | Natural selection that favors intermediate variants by acting against extreme phenotypes. |  | 20 |
| 6716240881 | disruptive selection | Natural selection that favors individuals with either extreme of a trait and may lead to speciation. |  | 21 |
| 6716240882 | cladogram | Shows patterns of shared characteristics. |  | 22 |
| 6716240883 | speciation | Origin of new species and the source of biological diversity. |  | 23 |
| 6716240884 | biological species concept | Species is a group of populations whose members have the potential to produce fertile offspring. | 24 | |
| 6716240885 | reproductive isolation | Barriers that impede members of two different species from producing fertile offspring. examples: prezygotic, temporal, habitat, behavioral, mechanical, gametic, postzygotic, reduced hybrid viability/sterility |  | 25 |
| 6716240886 | allopatric speciation | The formation of new species caused by separation by geography |  | 26 |
| 6716240887 | sympatric speciation | speciation without a divided population. |  | 27 |
| 6716240888 | 5 Conditions of Hardy Weinberg | (1) No natural selection (2) Large population (3) Random mating (4) No gene flow (5) No mutations | 28 | |
| 6716240889 | convergent evolution | Evolution that occurs when unrelated species occupy the same environment and are subjected to similar selective pressures and show similar adaptations (known as analogous structures). |  | 29 |
| 6716240890 | divergent evolution | Evolution that occurs when related species evolve in different patterns due to different selective pressures and show differing adaptations (known as homologous structures) |  | 30 |
| 6716240891 | Miller-Urey Experiment | Chemical experiment that shows that it is possible to form complex organic molecules form inorganic molecules in the absence of life. (primordial soup hypothesis) |  | 31 |
| 6716240892 | RNA world hypothesis | RNA could have been the earliest genetic material |  | 32 |
