niche - answer-range of environmental conditions in which a genotype can persist
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abiotic - answer-physical conditions
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biotic - answer-other organisms
b b b
which are the strongest bonds - answer-covalent bonds
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low temps - answer-more flexible enzymes
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high temps - answer-more rigid enzymes
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Do enzymes maintain a rigid structure while catalyzing? - answer-No it is constantly
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changing
b
adaptive plasticity - answer-one genotype has multiple phenotypes & environments
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trigger change
b b
genetic drift - answer-evolution caused by random processes in population in a
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population of finite size
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Do smaller or larger populations have more chance for genetic drift? - answer-Smaller
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populations
b
homology - answer-phenotype that is similar between two species because of common
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ancestry
b
homoplasy - answer-phenotype that is similar between two species because of
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convergent evolution
b b
parsimony - answer-the simplest explanation is the best (fewest evolutionary transitions)
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A-->B-->C = common A-->B-->A = uncommon
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migration load - answer-maintenance of deleterious alleles by migration
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Which traits are more informative? - answer-Shared derived traits (synapomorphy)
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Which traits provide no information? - answer-Shared ancestral traits (pleisiomorphy)
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