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13.1 Species: A Working Definition | -
How is the concept of gene flow related to the species concept?
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13.2 How New Species Originate | - How does speciation
differ from the formation of subspecies or races?
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- Why aren’t mules
considered a species?
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- Can you always tell by
looking at two organisms whether or not they belong to the same species?
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- Why is geographic
isolation important in the process of speciation?
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- How does a polyploid organism differ from
a haploid or diploid organism?
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- List the series of events necessary for
speciation to occur.
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13.3 Maintaining Genetic Isolation | - Describe three kinds of genetic isolating mechanisms that prevent
interbreeding between different species.
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- Give an example of seasonal isolating mechanisms, ecological isolating
mechanisms, and behavioral isolating mechanisms.
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13.4 The Development of Evolutionary Thought | - Why has Lamarck’s theory been rejected?
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- List 5 assumptions about the nature of
living things that support the concept of evolution by natural selection.
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13.5 Evolutionary Patterns
Above the Species Level | - Describe convergent evolution and
adaptive radiation.
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- What are the two dominant evolutionary
patterns?
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How are analogous and homologous structures different?
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13.6 Rates of Evolution | - What is the difference between gradualism and punctuated equilibrium?
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13.7 The Tentative Nature of the Evolutionary History of Organisms | - Why is it difficult to determine the
evolutionary history of a species?
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13.8 Human Evolution | - List 3 differences between australopiths and members of the genus Homo.
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- Compare the out-of-Africa hypothesis with the multiregional hypothesis of
the origin of Homo sapiens.
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