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This English naturalist sailed on HMS Beagle and later proposed that species change over time through a process he called "descent with modification."
Difficulty: Easy- Charles Darwin
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Thomas Huxley
This process copies DNA before cell division, using each strand as a template to create two identical double helices from one original molecule.
Difficulty: Medium- Transcription
- DNA replication
- Translation
- Recombination
This paradox in evolutionary genetics asks how populations maintain high genetic variation despite the expected loss of variation through selection and drift.
Difficulty: Hard- Fisher's paradox
- Classical-balance debate
- Haldane's paradox
- Lewontin's paradox
The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring is called this type of selection.
Difficulty: Easy- Artificial selection
- Natural selection
- Sexual selection
- Stabilizing selection
This type of speciation occurs without geographic isolation, often through polyploidy or ecological specialization within the same habitat.
Difficulty: Medium- Sympatric speciation
- Allopatric speciation
- Parapatric speciation
- Peripatric speciation
This phenomenon where genes with similar effects on fitness show correlated evolutionary rates across lineages is used to predict gene function and interactions.
Difficulty: Hard- Phylogenetic inertia
- Correlated evolution
- Evolutionary rate covariation
- Linked selection
These preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms found in rock provide direct evidence of life forms that existed millions of years ago.
Difficulty: Easy- Artifacts
- Sediments
- Fossils
- Minerals
The exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes during meiosis, increasing genetic variation, is called crossing over or genetic what?
Difficulty: Medium- Genetic mutation
- Genetic drift
- Genetic recombination
- Genetic transcription
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