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Evolution |
Process of change overtime |
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Biological Resistance |
When organisms are nolonger effected by a drug. |
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Genetic Diversity |
Variety of genes within aspecies |
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Biodiversity |
Variety of life |
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Analogous Structures |
Parts of differentorganisims that are similar function but different in structure. |
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Stabilizing Selection |
Intermediate forms of atrait are favored and alleles that specify extreme forms are eliminated from a population. |
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Diversifying Selection |
Increase in the extremetypes in a population at the expense of the intermediate. |
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Directional Selection |
Process when one phenotypereplaces another in the gene pool. |
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Gradualism |
Slowrate of evolution. Hard to notice over ashort period of time |
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Speciation |
A separation of species orpopulations so that they cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring. The formation of a new species. |
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Divergent Evolution |
Is the process of two ormore related species becoming more and more dissimilar. |
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Convergent Evolution |
The emergence ofbiological structures or species that exhibit similar function and appearancebut that evolved through widely different evolutionary pathways. |
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Coevolution |
The joint change in two ormore species in close interaction. |
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Punctuated Equilibrium |
Change comes inspurts. There is a period of very littlechange, and then one or a few huge changes occur. |
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Decent of modification |
When a person comes fromtheir parents, but with modifications |
