AP Bio Evolution Flashcards

AP Bio Evolution Flashcards Evolution - answerthe change in a population's inherited traits from generation to generation natural selection - answerthe evolutionary process by which favorable traits that are heritable become more common in successive generations evolutionary adaptations - answerinherited traits further developed through evolution gradualism - answerthe slow, gradual steps of change uniformitarianism - answerthe philosophy of science that believes that the natural processes operating now are doing so at the same rate as in the past artificial selection - answerthe intentional breeding of certain characteristics over others homology - answerany similarity between structures due to shared ancestry homologous structures - answerany structures that are sismilar due to shared ancestry vestigial organs - answeranatomical structures of organisms in a species which have lost much or all of their original function due to evolution phylogeny - answerthe study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms population - answerthe collection of people or organisms of a particular species living in a given geographic area or space species - answerone of the basic units of biological classification Hardy-Weinberg Theorum - answera relationship between the frequencies of alleles and the genotype of a population Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium - answerwhen alleles are in perfect Hardy-Weinberg proportion Hardy-Weinberg equation - answerp²+2pq+q²=1 macroevolution - answerevolution that occurs at or above the species level bottleneck effect - answeran evolutionary event in which a significant percentage of a population or species is killed or otherwise prevented from reproducing founder effect - answerestablishing a population by a small number of individuals, carrying only a small fraction of the original population's genetic variation