Prevent the hybrid zygote from developing into a viable, fertile adult
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Prezygotic barriers
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Prevent mating between different species by blocking the zygote from forming
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Evolution
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A change in allele frequencies in a population over many generations.
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Heterozygous
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An organism that has two different alleles for a trait
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Stabilizing Selection
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Natural selection in which intermediate phenotypes survive or reproduce more successfully than do extreme phenotypes.
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Continental Drift
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Wegener's idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface, leading to allopatric speciation
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Artificial Selection
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Humans breed plants and animals by seeking individual with desired traits as breeding stock.
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Sympatric Speciation
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occurs when a species evolves into a new species in an area without a geographic barrier
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Linnaeus
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Invented binomial nomenclature
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Genetic Drift
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A change in the gene pool of a population due to chance. It LIMITS diversity.
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Convergent Evolution
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The process by which unrelated species become more similar as they adapt to the same kind of environment
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Haploid
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Cell that has half the number of chromosomes as body cells
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Gene flow
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Movement of alleles into or out of a population due to the migration of individuals to or from the population. It INCREASES diversity.
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Allele
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the different versions of a gene
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Adaptive evolution
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An evolutionary process that is directed by natural selection, which makes a population better adapted to live in an environment.
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Lamarck
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inheritance of acquired characteristics
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Mutations
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Random errors in gene replication that lead to a change in the sequence of nucleotides. The source of all genetic diversity.
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Darwin
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English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection
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Allopatric Speciation
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the evolution of new species through the process of geographic isolation into two separate environments
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Nonrandom mating
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Individuals choose their mates for a specific reason.
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The Founder Effect
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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.
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Gene Pool
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All of the alleles in all the individuals that make up a population
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Fitness
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How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment
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Heterozygote advantage
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greater reproductive success of heterozygous individuals compared with homozygotes; tends to preserve variation in a gene pool
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Hardy-Weinberg Equation
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p² + 2pq + q² =1
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Disruptive Selection
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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.
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Natural Selection
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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.
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Directional Selection
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Natural selection in which individuals at one end of the phenotypic range survive or reproduce more successfully than do other individuals.
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Analogous Structures
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Similar in function but not structure, like the wing of a bat and the wing of a butterfly.
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Homozygous
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Having two identical alleles for a particular gene
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Homologous Structures
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Structures that come from the same ancestor...have a common origin and reflect a common ancestry.
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Diploid
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having two sets of chromosomes
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Bottleneck Effect
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When a population has been dramatically reduced, and the gene pool is no longer reflective of the original population's. It LIMITS diversity.