BI 101 Review Terms for Evolution on Exam
3, Fall 2007.
What are seven influential factors known to be important to Darwin and Wallace?
Evolution HMS Beagle Galapagos Islands Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Jean Lamarck Charles Lyell Thomas Malthus Social Darwinism
artificial selection
What are the benefits of sexual reproduction?
Theory of uniformity
Charles Darwin
Alfred Russell Wallace
Stephen Jay Gould
fitness (in evolution)
artificial selection
population
Gene flow
Mutation
Natural Selection
peppered moth
goldenrod gall fly (what preys on it?)
Sources of variation within populations
Types (modes) of Natural Selection (understand and know examples for each below):
stabilizing selection
directional selection
disruptive selection
Sexual selection