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The smallest unit of evolution is
the ______.
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Population
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Homology is evidence of ______.
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Common ancestry
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During his trip on the Beagle, Darwin found that ______.
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Plants and animals living on a continent seemed more closely related to each other than to plantsand animals living in similar regions on other continents
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Genetic drift is the result of ance changes in the gene pool of a population
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Chance changes in the gene pool of a population
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What can create new alleles?
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Mutation
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An example of directional
selection?
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Greyhound dogs
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The similarity of the embryos of
fish, frogs, birds, and humans is evidence of ______.
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Convergent evolution
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Any particular mutation is most
likely to ______.
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Be harmful ///// have no effect on reproductive success
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The study of
evolutionary relationships using molecular biology give examples?
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Nucleotide sequences of DNA, metabolic pathways, amino acid sequences of proteins, the genetic code
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The modern synthesis of evolution
was a fusion of ______.
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Genetics and evolutionary biology
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Natural selection results in
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offspring better adapted to their parents' environment than were their parents
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Natural selection can be defined
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Survival and reproduction of the organisms that are genetically best adapted to the environment
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After surviving a bottleneck, a
population recovers to the point where it consists of as many individuals as it
did prior to the bottleneck. Which of the following statements is most likely
to apply to this population?
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The post bottleneck population exhibits less genetic variation than the pre bottleneck population
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A particular species of land
snail has a shell that may be brown, yellow, or pink. How would you explain
this situation?
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These snails are polymorphic for shell color.
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What subdiscipline of biology
unites all of biology into a single science?
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Evolution
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