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| 5208015144 | Microevolution | Change in allele frequencies in a population over generations. | 0 | |
| 5208015145 | Macroevolution | Evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups | 1 | |
| 5208015146 | Hardy-Weinberg Equation | p² + 2pq + q² =1 |  | 2 |
| 5208015147 | Gene flow | Movement of alleles into or out of a population due to the migration of individuals to or from the population. It INCREASES diversity. | 3 | |
| 5208015148 | Mutations | Random errors in gene replication that lead to a change in the sequence of nucleotides. The source of all genetic diversity. | 4 | |
| 5208015149 | Nonrandom mating | Individuals choose their mates for a specific reason. | 5 | |
| 5208015150 | Natural Selection | A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits. | 6 | |
| 5208015151 | Genetic Drift | A change in the gene pool of a population due to chance. It LIMITS diversity. | 7 | |
| 5208015152 | Bottleneck Effect | When a population has been dramatically reduced, and the gene pool is no longer reflective of the original population's. It LIMITS diversity. | 8 | |
| 5208015153 | The Founder Effect | When a small population breaks away from a larger one to colonize a new area, it is most likely not genetically representative of the original larger population. | 9 | |
| 5208015154 | Gene Pool | All of the alleles in all the individuals that make up a population | 10 | |
| 5208015155 | Heterozygous | An organism that has two different alleles for a trait | 11 | |
| 5208015156 | Homozygous | Having two identical alleles for a particular gene | 12 | |
| 5208015163 | Linnaeus | Invented binomial nomenclature | 13 | |
| 5208015167 | Lamarck | inheritance of acquired characteristics | 14 | |
| 5208015169 | Darwin | English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection | 15 | |
| 5208015170 | Stabilizing Selection | Natural selection in which intermediate phenotypes survive or reproduce more successfully than do extreme phenotypes. | 16 | |
| 5208015171 | Disruptive Selection | Increases the extreme types in a population at the expense of intermediate forms. Over great lengths of time, disruptive selection may result in the formation of two new species. | 17 | |
| 5208015172 | Directional Selection | Natural selection in which individuals at one end of the phenotypic range survive or reproduce more successfully than do other individuals. | 18 | |
| 5208015174 | Artificial Selection | Humans breed plants and animals by seeking individual with desired traits as breeding stock. | 19 | |
| 5208015177 | Fitness | How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment | 20 | |
| 5208015178 | Adaptive evolution | An evolutionary process that is directed by natural selection, which makes a population better adapted to live in an environment. | 21 | |
| 5208015187 | Independent Assortment | the law by which genes on different chromosomes are inherited independently of each other | 22 | |
| 5208015188 | Crossing over | Nonsister chromatids exchanging DNA segments. | 23 | |
| 5208015189 | Random Fertilization | The combination of each unique sperm with each each unique egg | 24 | |
| 5208015190 | Diploid | having two sets of chromosomes | 25 | |
| 5208015191 | Haploid | Cell that has half the number of chromosomes as body cells | 26 | |
| 5208015192 | Heterozygote advantage | greater reproductive success of heterozygous individuals compared with homozygotes; tends to preserve variation in a gene pool | 27 | |
| 5208015198 | Homologous Structures | Structures that come from the same ancestor...have a common origin and reflect a common ancestry. | 28 | |
| 5208015199 | Analogous Structures | Similar in function but not structure, like the wing of a bat and the wing of a butterfly. | 29 | |
| 5208015201 | Convergent Evolution | The process by which unrelated species become more similar as they adapt to the same kind of environment | 30 |
