Chapter 24 and 25 Open Notes Quiz

A change in allele frequency following a dramatic reduction in the size of a population

• genetic drift

• microevolution

• founder effect

• bottleneck effect

Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.

• gene flow

• mutation

• adaptation

• fitness

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Differences among individuals in the composition of their genes or other DNA segments.

• genetic drift

• geographic variation

• vestigial organs

• genetic variation

Information about past life, including the structure of organisms, what they ate, what ate them, in what environment they lived, and the order in which they lived.

• founder effect

• vestigial organs

• fossil record

• genetic drift

Organs that serve no useful purpose for the organism; these suggest that sometime in the past they were useful.

• balancing selection

• genetic drift

• artificial selection

• vestigial organ

Movement of alleles from one population to another.

• gene pool

• mutation

• gene flow

• microevolution

Classification system in which each species is assigned a two-part scientific name; genus and species.

• artificial selection

• homologous structures

• binomial nomenclature

• population

Difference in physical characteristics between males and females of the same species.

• sexual dimorphism

• genetic variation

• catastrophism

• artificial selection

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.

• fossil

• taxonomy

• mutation

• gene pool

The scientific study of how things are classified.

• taxonomy

• gene flow

• mutation

• fossil