Evolution Crossword

The study of where organisms live and their ancestors lived in the past.
structures tha shared by a related species and have been inherited fro a common ancestor
Structures that share a common function but are not structurally related.
The process by which organisms that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully
He is considered to be the "father" of modern evolution.
A trait that is controlled by just one gene.
Contains all the alleles of all the genes in a population.
A change in an organism's DNA sequence.
The number of times an allele occurs in a gene pool.
A trait that is controlled by 2 of more genes.
When individuals at one end of the bell curve have higher fitness the the others
Individual near the center of bell curve have the highest fitness
This type of selection can eventually create two distinct phenotypes.
A random change in the frequency of the alleles in a gene pool.
One of two effects on genetic drift.
The other effect on genetic drift
This occurs when populations are not evolving.
The formation of a new species
When two populations can longer mate and produce offspring
When populations a separated by a barrier
When two interbreeding population develop different mating dances.
This type of reproductive isolation occurs when populations that lives in the same habitat mate at different times.
this uses mutation rates in DNA to estimate how long long ago two organisms shared a common ancestor.