Ch. 13 How Populations Evolve
Across
- 2. when nucleotide sequences of DNA have random changes and can result in new alleles
- 14. remnants of features that served important functions in the organism’s ancestors
- 15. Chance allows certain alleles to be represented more in survivors than other alleles that didn’t survive
- 17. populations gain or loses alleles when fertile individuals move in or out of he population or when gametes are transferred in between populations
- 19. individuals with particular traits are more likely than other individuals to mate
- 20. shifts in overall makeup of a population by selecting in favor of one extreme phenotype ex. Darkest fur color
- 21. contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation relative to the contributions of the other individuals
- 22. reduces physical variation and gets rid of more extreme phenotypes
- 23. where future generations will get their genes from
- 24. structure due to common ancestry
Down
- 1. Individuals in a population have many heritable traits that vary greatly
- 3. the combination of genetics with evolutionary biology
- 4. results from the establishment of small new populations whose gene pool is different from the parent population
- 5. comparison of body structures in different species
- 6. population is not evolving and in genetic equilibrium
- 7. a group of individuals of the same species living in the same place at the same time - can change over time
- 8. the pattern of descent showed
- 9. genetic composition of the population has changed over time / all of biological history of organisms that live on the Earth today
- 10. selection: changes in population genetics where values for a trait are favored over other values and divided into two groups
- 11. geographic distribution of species
- 12. change in a population’s frequency of alleles
- 13. Organisms with certain inherited traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than are individuals with other traits
- 16. a population’s increase in the frequency of traits suited to the environment
- 18. distinction in appearance