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What did Darwin identify as the reason for evolutionary changes in a population?
Organisms with the best-suited characteristics for their environment survive and reproduce better.
How did Mendel's discovery contribute to solving Darwin's problem?
By identifying heritable particles that do not blend, contradicting Pangenesis.
What is Pangenesis according to the text?
The concept that body cells produce hereditary particles circulating in the blood.
What is the role of natural selection in evolution as per the text?
Identifying why some individuals survive and reproduce better based on their characteristics.
According to Mendel, what happens to traits that are dominant?
They are expressed over recessive traits.
What is the significance of Watson and Crick confirming that genes are made of DNA?
It led to the proposal of the double helix model.
Which process describes the development of organs or bodily structures in different species that resemble each other and have the same functions but did not have a common ancestral origin?
Convergence
According to Linnaeus, how did he classify plants?
Based on their similarity, forming a hierarchy
What type of characters are the most informative for deciding relatedness according to Hennig's Cladistics?
Shared derived characters (synapomorphies)
What is the primary source of variation in traits according to Modern Synthesis?
Mutation
What does a grade represent in classification?
A grouping with certain features in common
'Shared primitive characters' and 'unique characters' are not useful for identifying which species are most closely related. What are the more useful characters for this purpose?
'Shared ancestral characters' and 'shared derived characters'
Explore the concepts of organism behaviors and natural selection in the evolution of life, including the reasons why organisms behave in certain ways and how natural selection influences the survival and reproduction of individuals in a population.
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