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31 Cards in this Set
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A stone fly and a cattus fly mated and their offspring was sterile, therefore they are the same species |
false |
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Individuals with higher fitness have a better chance to reproduce |
true |
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Evolution occurs in populations and not in individual organisms |
true |
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Reproductive isolation is an important part of microevolution |
false |
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Binomial nomenclature uses genus and family to identify organisms |
false, it uses genus and species |
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microevolution occurs more rapidly than macroevolution |
true |
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broccoli evolved from a wild mustard plant due to natural selection |
true |
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sometimes organisms that look the same are actually different species |
true |
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shared gene pool prevent the development of reproductive isolation |
true |
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all mammals birds and reptile embryos have gill slits at one time. This is an example of convergence |
false, its an example of comparative embryology |
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A gene pool includes all the alleles of an individual organism |
false, includes it for the entire population |
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in biology, fitness measures physical strength |
false |
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the similarities in fore limbs in humans, bats and whales is called homologous structures, this evidence is called comparative embryology |
true, false |
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microevolution includes the changes in allele frequencies in an individual |
false, no evolution happens at the individual level |
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different dog breeds came about due to natural selection |
false, artificial selection |
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humans are part of the kingdom animalia |
true
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The 4th largest level of taxonomic classification is phylum |
false, class |
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the presence of citochrome c in aerobic organisms is evidence of a common ancestor |
true |
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in artificial selection, humans act as the population |
false, we act as the envirnmental pressures |
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cats are part of the domain archadia |
false, animals |
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the common ancestor is found at the center of a platogram |
false, found at the bottom |
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the change from peppered moths to black moths is due to a mutation in the population |
false, due to its environment |
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stabilizing selection causes two extremes of the trait to become more common |
false, distributive |
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natural selections results in offspring better suited to a future environment |
false, it creates offspring better suited for the environment NOW |
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reproductive isolation is necessary for speciation to occur |
true |
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plant pollinator relationship provide benefits to all involved |
false |
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to be the same species, offspring must be viable and fertile |
true |
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in strategrophy the top layer is the youngest layer |
true |
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phylogenetics is a study of evolutionary relationships |
true |
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frogs with specific mating calls are an example of temporal isolation |
false, they are an example of |
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genetic divergence is when populations accumulate genetic changes through time |
true |