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Chapter 21
"The Evidence for Evolution" Evolutionary Biology, BIO 152 CSU Chico
Question | Answer |
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Industrial melanism | refers to the phenomenon in which darker individuals come to predominate over lighter ones. |
artificial selection | favoring individuals with certain phenotypic traits, allowing them to reproduce and pass their genes on to the next generation |
homologous structures | structures with different appearances and functions that all derived from the same body part in a common ancestor |
vestigial structures | structures with no apparent function, but resemble structures their ancestors possessed. |
pseudogenes | traces of previously functioning genes |
convergent evolution | favors changes that made two groups groups more alike |