Evolution Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. Type of effect that happens when a small group starts a new population
  2. 7. When actions or behaviors separate species cause sexual selection
  3. 9. What Hardy and Weinberg proposed happens when the alleles are not changing
  4. 10. Term for the number of alleles in a gene pool
  5. 11. When a single species evolves into several different species, like the finches. ___ radiation.
  6. 15. Term for species that are so closely tied together they evolve together
  7. 16. Isolation that caused the difference between organisms separated by mountain ranges, for example
  8. 21. Type of selection for polygenic traits that occurs when one end of the curve has highest fitness
  9. 22. Type of structures that show similar traits from organisms with common ancestry
  10. 24. Selection that occurs when the average of a trait is best
  11. 25. Structures that were inherited from a common ancestor, but have since lost their function
  12. 26. Term for when there is change in alleles caused by random chance. Genetic...?
  13. 27. What happens when reproductive isolation occurs over time.
  14. 29. Type of extinction that occurs when a vast majority of the population goes extinct at once.
  15. 30. Effect that occurs when a natural disaster happens and those who survive are random
Down
  1. 1. Term for polygenic traits that the average is least fit, resulting eventually in separate species
  2. 2. Evolution that occurs after genetic drift or extinction event, ___ equilibrium.
  3. 3. Type of evolution showed with slow, small changes over time
  4. 4. DNA evidence is incredibly useful for ancestry analysis, for example studying mutation rates in a ___ clock.
  5. 6. Scientist who along with Miller studied the early origins of life when they stimulated early atmosphere and made amino acids
  6. 8. Type of way to analyze fossil age by comparing them to index fossils
  7. 10. Term for how well an organism can survive and reproduce in an environment
  8. 12. Type of mating that must occur for a population to change
  9. 13. Type of isolation that happens when organisms mate at different times of the year.
  10. 14. What it is called when small numbers of species die off over time, leaving behind a functional ecosystem.
  11. 17. Theory on how eukaryotes were formed from a close symbiotic relationship with early prokaryotes.
  12. 18. Type of dating that is used to tell a more exact age of specimen by looking at radiometric isotopes and half lifes.
  13. 19. One of the most influential naturalists of our time, whose observations and discoveries led to the theory of evolution and Natural Selection
  14. 20. Term for what happens when a population changes from immigration or emigration. Gene...?
  15. 23. One of the first scientists to say species changed over time, but inaccurately used acquired chararacteristics
  16. 28. Structures that look similar in other species despite different ancestry, example of convergent evolution