Mid-term 1

Question 1

natural selection

Answer 1

process by which there is an inherent variation in population of organisms, variant best suited for growth and reproduction in a given environment contribute disproportionately to future generations (an evolutionary mechanisms that leads to adaptation)

Question 2

natural selection (book)

Answer 2

depends on differential success-in terms of surviving and reproducing-in variants

Question 3

species

Answer 3

consists of individuals that can exchange genetic material through interbreeding (group of species capable, through reproduction, of sharing alleles with one other)

Question 4

populations

Answer 4

interbreeding groups of organisms of the same species living in the same geographic area