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what is gradualism it exerted a strong influence on darwins thinking   the idea that profound change can take place through the cummulitave effect of slow but continuous process (hutton and lyell  
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actual father of evolution but had the inheritance of acquired traits as the mechanism otherwise known as use and disuse   lamarck  
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what are the two major points of darwins orgin of species   1. many species of organisms presently inhabiting earth are desendants of ancestral species that were diffrent form the modern species 2. the mechanism to the process is natural selection  
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what is natural selection   the process in which populations can change over generations if individuals that posess certain heritable traits leave more offspring than other individuals  
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what is evolutionary adaptation   an accumulation of inherited charateristics that enchance an organisms ability to survive and reproduce in a specific enviroment  
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a change over time in the genetic composition of a population   evolution  
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hypothesis that each strata corosponds in time to a catastrophe that destroyed many of the species living there at the time   catastrophism  
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the idea that tie same geologic processes from gradualism are operating today as in the past and at the same rate   uniformitarianism  
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what did darwin mean when he used the phrase decent with modification   as the descendents of an ancestral organism spilled into various habitats over millions of years they accumulated diverse modifications that fit them to specific ways of life  
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two main ideas darwin developed in the orgin of species   1. evolution explains lifes unity and diversity 2. natural selection is a cause of adaptive evolution  
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process of selecting and breeding individuals with desired traits   atrifical selection  
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similarity resulting from common ancestry   homology  
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remnants of structures that may have served important functions in the organisms ancestors   vestigal organs  
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the geographic distribution of species   biogeography  
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species which is found only in a specific area   endemic  
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what factors produce the variation that makes evolution possible   mutation and sexual recombination  
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waht is the primary mechanism of adaptive evolution   natural selection  
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what factors can alter a populations genetic composition   natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow  
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what is the diffrence between microevolution and macroevolution   microevolution is change in the makeup of a population from generation to generation and macroevolution is the origination of new taxonomic groups (new abilities or features)  
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why are populations important as the units of evolution   populations are the only units in which change in heritable variation from generation to generation can be observed  
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what causes microevolution   small population size, migration, net mutation, non random mating, natural selection  
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what causes the variation that makes evolution possible   sexual recombination and mutation  
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why are mutations more rapid in microorganisms   they have a more rapid rate of reproduction  
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why id sexual recombination more important than mutations in terms of evolution   sexual recombination is the way in which these mutations are spread throughout the community without it the mutation would die with the organism in which it occured  
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what are the three factors that can alter a populations genetic composition   genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection  
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how does natural selection work   by accumulating and maintaining favorable genotypes in a population fitting them to their new enviroment increasing the frequency of certain genotypes  
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why does natural selection have no efect on neutral variation   natural selection selects only aginst phenotyipc traits that give an organism an advantage or puts them at a disadvantage  
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why cant natural selection produce perfect organisms   natural selection can only select among traits that already exist and when helpful modifications occur they are usually a compromise  
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