Vocabulary for Exam 3

This is a list of vocabulary that I thought might be important for exam 3. Most of them are on the exam review (posted before this and still available) but some are not. Let me know if you don't know some of these.

 

·         Inheritance of Acquired characteristics

·         Transformation

·         Stasis

·         Spontaneous generation

·         Transmutation

·         Darwins Observations – you should know where he went, what he saw, what he thought about these observations

·         Theories of Natural Selection

·         Natural Selection

·         Variational Evolution

·         Special creation

·         Struggle for existence

·         Industrial melanism

·         Directional selection

·         Stabilizing selection

·         Disruptive selection

·         Artificial selection

·         Physiological adaptation

·         Phenotypic plasticity

·         Genetic drift

·         Intrasexual selection

·         Intersexual selection

·         Sexual dimorphism

·         Polyandrous

·         Hamilton Zuk Hypothesis

·         Handicap Hypothesis

·         Runaway selection

·         Primary sex characteristics

·         Secondary sex characteristics

·         Sexy Son Hypothesis

·         Polymorphism

·         Sibling species

·         Subspecies

·         Character Displacement

·         Character Release

·         Sympatric

·         Allopatric

·         Sympatric Speciation

·         Allopatric Speciation

·         Prezygotic Isolation

·         Geographic isolation

·         Ecological isolation

·         Behavioral isolation

·         Temporal isolation

·         Mechanical isolation

·         Gametic isolation

·         Post zygotic isolation

·         Zygote death

·         Infertility

·         Genus species

·         Founder effect

·         Genetic drift

·         Bottleneck

·         Adaptive radiation

·         Reinforcement

·         Ring species

·         Host shift