AP Bio Evolution Review

Includes the extremophiles (methanogens, halophiles and thermophiles) 

Which group below is considered "monophyletic"?

_____________ evolve, not individuals. 

Said acquired traits are inherited (break your arm, kids will have weird arm)

Said the Earth is very old and geologic chance is a slow process (gradualism)

The structures shown below are considered...

Type of symmetry seen in more primitive animals 

Group of species that includes an ancestral species and all descendants

Most reproduce sexually with a dominant diploid stage

Paleontologist opposed to idea of evolution; came up with idea catastrophism 

Man breeding cattle for specific traits is an example of...

Plants with vascular tissue

Natural selection resulting in a narrow range of phenotypes close to the mean

Which classification group is the least inclusive?

Includes protista, fungi, plants and animals

homozygous recessive (ex. rr)

The euglena, paramecium and amoeba are examples of eukaryotic ___________.

According to the character table, which is more closely related to the turtle?

Movement of fertile individuals between populations; reduces differences between populations

The pictures below show examples of...

All of the alleles for all genes in all members of the population

Structures that DO suggest recent common ancestry

These structures do not suggest recent common ancestry. They are...

Was able to produce membrane-bound structures out of organic molecules

The evolution of similar looking anoles on islands with similar habitats is an example of 

If p and q are NOT constant from one generation to the next, the population must be _________.

One way of determining whether or not population is evolving at a particular locus 

Single-celled prokaryotes, cell walls contain peptidoglycan, act as decomposers

The founder effect and the bottleneck effect are example of...

Period of evolutionary change in which groups of organisms form many new species 

The model depicting the tempo of evolution below illustrates...

May help explain why base of tree of life is a "tangled web"

Sometimes error bars overlap just a little bit. What additional test should be done next?

Used electricity to convert components of the early atmosphere into organic compounds

Natural selection that results in two or more extreme phenotypes on either side of the mean

According to the "Your Inner Fish" video, the indent seen in the human ear below is a...

Not found in the Earth's early atmosphere

A population forms a new species while geographically isolated from parent population

Plants without vascular tissue 

Impedes mating/fertilization through various forms of reproductive isolation

The three domains of life

Analogous traits are due to ....

The scientific name for the coyote is Canis latrans. What is its genus?

The diagram below shows possible outcomes of _________ due to incomplete reproductive barriers.

Primitive form of sexual reproduction performed by some bacteria

Frequency of the dominant allele (ex. R)

Diploidy and the heterozygote advantage...

No mutations, random mating, no natural selection, large population size, no gene flow

A bioinformatics database that allows you to compare DNA and amino acid sequences in organisms

Regions of DNA that evolve at a constant rate and help estimate dates of past events

Enhance an organisms ability to survive and reproduce

Members of same species can interbreed and produce fertile/viable offspring

The ONLY evolutionary mechanism that consistently leads to adaptive evolution

Hypothesized that organic molecules could form without oxygen present

Is there a statistically significant difference between the groups shown below?

The effects of genetic drift are...

cell walls made of chitin, absorb their food

Name of the third germ layer found in more complex animals during embryonic development

An example of sympatric speciation...

The type of evidence in support of evolution shown below...

p+q=

Another word for "immobile" (primitive animals that do not move around)

Having more than the usual number of chromosomes due to interbreeding of different species

One minor cause of evolution

Reduced hybrid viability is an example of a(n)

The evolution of Finches on the Galapagos Islands is an example of

Development of a head end with sensory structures

Founder of taxonomy and binomial nomenclature

Principle that uses the simplest explanation (fewest changes) when creating a phylogenetic tree