BI 112            Spring 2009

Review terms for CH 22-23 [Mechanisms of Evolution] 

acquired characteristics

adaptive radiation

Alfred Russel Wallace

Allopatric speciation

analogous structures

Archaeopteryx

artificial selection

biological species concept

Charles Darwin

Charles Lyell

Contingency of evolutionary history

directional selection

diversifying selection

Ernst Mayr

Evolution

fitness in an evolutionary sense

fossils

Galapagos Islands

gene flow

gene pool

H.M.S. Beagle

homologous structures

inheritance of acquired characteristics

Jean Baptiste Lamark

macroevolution

microevolution

morphological species concept

morphological convergence

morphological divergence

mutation

natural selection

ontogeny

paleontology

peppered moth

phylogeny

population

Richard Dawkins

sexual dimorphism

sexual selection

Social Darwinism

stabilizing selection

Stephen Jay Gould

Sympatric speciation

Thomas Malthus

uniformitarianism

vestigial organs

What are the sources of genetic variation in a population?

What are the major lines of evidence that support the concept of macroevolution.