12 Questions
What is the primary focus of the field of systematics?
Classifying and determining evolutionary relationships of organisms
What is the primary difference between microevolution and macroevolution?
Time scale
What is the term for the process of a single species splitting into two distinct species?
Speciation
What is the term for the migration of individuals or movement of gametes between populations, resulting in a change in allele frequencies?
Gene flow
What type of speciation involves the duplication of sets of chromosomes within individuals?
Autopolyploidy
What is the term for the study of the evolutionary relationships of organisms?
Phylogeny
What is the term for the isolation of two species due to differences in their reproductive organs?
Mechanical isolation
What is the name of the model that assumes allele frequencies do not change across generations, and genotype frequencies can be predicted from allele frequencies?
Hardy-Weinberg principle
What is the term for the process by which two different species combine their chromosomes to form a new species?
Allopolyploidy
What type of natural selection occurs when the average trait is selected in the center?
Stabilizing selection
What is the primary condition required for speciation to occur?
Reproductive isolation
What is the term for the random changes in allele frequencies from one generation to the next?
Genetic drift
Explore the concepts of microevolution and macroevolution, including population dynamics, gene pools, and the differences between individual and population-level evolution.
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