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33 Cards in this Set
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isostasy (glacioisostatic rebound) |
adjustment to retain buoyancy. A continent can be pushed down into the asthenosphere, and then rise back up if the pressure is released |
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mamihlapinatapai |
Word in Yaghan language when two people look at each other within that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither wants to start |
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Transform faults |
Occur when plates move sideways with respect to each other
San Andreas Fault |
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Hot Spot |
• As a continent moves over a hot spot, a chain of volcanoes is formed. . . |
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pharyngula |
point at which vertebrate embryos most closely resemble each other. |
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phylotypic stage |
embryos at the phylotypic stage are most similar, not only in shape, but in patterns of gene expression.
a set of genes called HOX is transcribed and translated |
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Heterochrony |
“Different timing” |
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Paedomorphosis |
descendant is less developed / less mature than ancestor
A paedomorphic appearance in mammals is often considered to be "cute" by humans. (Large forehead, large eyes, large head relative to body size) |
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Peramorphosis |
descendant is more developed / more mature than ancestor |
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Thomas Hunt Morgan |
American scientist that showed genes were physically located on chromosomes |
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p and q refer to |
alleles |
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Morgan |
discovered that genes are physically located on chromosomes |
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Hardy-Weinberg is violated when this happens |
Emigration, Immigration, Inbreeding, Non-random mating |
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symbol for fitness |
W |
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Idea that humans should apply artificial selection to themselves |
Eugenics
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Desert islands off the coast of equator |
Galapagos |
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Co-discoverer of the equation that relates to allele frequencies to genotype frequencies |
Weinberg |
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The theory that evolution takes place along pre-determinded trajectories, it supposedly explained the irish elk |
Orthogenisis
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random |
One of the conditions for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is mating must be |
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Effective |
The _____________ population size is abbreviated Ne |
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Vestigial |
Structures that serve no purpose in an organism, but that are homologous with functional structures in related organisms |
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Neodarwinism |
Another name for the "Modern Synthesis" the union of Darwinian evolution and mendelian genetics |
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genetic drift |
Random changes in allele frequency that are greater in smaller populations |
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evolution |
Darwin himself preferred the name "descent with modification" for his theory of |
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Feugians |
South American native people whom Darwin encountered and got to know |
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Tree of life |
Darwins idea of evolution as a branching process connecting all living species |
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haplotypes |
genetic markers that exist in only one copy per person because they are inherited from only one parent and don't recombine
on the Y chromosome |
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Edinburgh |
Scottish city and university where darwin studied medicine and learned about Lamarck's ideas |
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Sexual selection |
form of selection caused by animals preferring to reproduce with mates that have attractive traits |
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Paley wrote |
Natural Theology - watchmaker Theres a reason and a purpose for everything |
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heterosis |
hybrid vigor, when a hybrid is often larger and healthier than either parents |
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Lyell's Uniformitarianism |
"the present is the key to the past"
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Paley's natural theology |
complexity implies a personal designer |
