AP Bio Test #7

31964335	taxonomy	Branch of biology concerned with identifying, describing, and naming organisms.
31964336	paleontology	Study of fossils that results in knowledge about the history of life.
31964337	natural selection	Mechanism of evolution caused by environmental selection of organisms most fit to reproduce; results in adaptation to the environment.
31964338	fossil record	History of life recorded from remains from the past.
31964339	comparative anatomy	the study of anatomical features of animals of different species in order to determine either current or ancestral relationships
31965081	gene pool	Total of all the genes of all the individuals in a population.
31965082	directional selection	Outcome of natural selection in which an extreme phenotype is favored, usually in a changing environment.
31965083	stabilizing selection	Outcome of natural selection in which extreme phenotypes are eliminated and the average phenotype is conserved.
31965084	phyletic evolution	Genetic changes that occur within an evolutionary line that eventually cause one species to split into two species
31965085	punctuated equilibrium	a theory of evolution holding that evolutionary change in the fossil record came quickly due to major environmental events rather than in a steady process of slow change; the opposite of gradualism.
31965086	gradualism	A view of evolution that attributes profound change to the cumulative product of slow but continuous change that is passed on from parents to offspring over many generations.
31965558	geographic isolation	separation of populations as a result of geographic change or migration to geographically isolated places
31965559	reproductive isolation	separation of species or populations so that they cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring
31965560	adaptive radiation	Evolution of several species from a common ancestor into new ecological or geographical zones.