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evolution | all of the processes that have transformed life over an immense period of time |
adaptation | inherited characteristic that improves an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment |
biodiversity | the variety of life on earth |
speciation | development of a new species |
extinction | elimination of a species |
fossil record | chronological collection of life's remains in rock layers recorded during the passage of time |
fossil | preserved remains of ancient organisms |
homologous structures | similar structure found in more than one species that share a common ancestor |
vestigial organ | organ that serves no useful function in an organism |
natural selection | process by which individuals better suited to their environments survive and reproduce the most successfully |
natural variation | differences among individuals of the same species |
Darwinian fitness | the contribution that an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation compared to those genes contributed by others |
macroevolution | major biological changes evident in the fossil record |
microevolution | generation-to-generation change in the frequencies of alleles within a population |
gene pool | all the alleles in all the individuals that make up a population |
allele frequency | how often certain alleles occur in the gene pool |
genetic equilibrium | allele frequencies in a gene pool do not change |
genetic drift | change in gene pool due to chance |
bottle neck effect | gene pool greatly decrease by natural disaster such as earthquake, volcano, flood, drought, fire , epidemic |
founder effect | a few individuals colonize an island, lake or new habitat |
gene flow | exchange of genes with another population |
immigration | new individuals entering a population |
emigration | individuals leaving a population |
reproductive isolation | condition in which a reproductive barrier keeps two species from interbreeding |
geographic isolation | separation of populations as a result of geographic change or a migration to a geographically isolated place |
adaptive radiation | the evolution of many species from a common ancestor because of diverse environments |
directional selection | when individuals at one end of the curve have higher fitness than individuals in the middle or other end |
stabilizing selection | individuals near the center of the curve have higher fitness than individuals at either ends of the curve |
disruptive selection | individuals at the upper and lower ends of the curve have higher fitness than individuals near the middle |
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