ANHB 1101 Exam with verified detailed answers

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Archaeopteryx - ✔✔intermediate fossil that shows both reptile and bird characteristics
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Phylogenetic constraint - ✔✔The fact that the legacy of human evolutionary past limits the
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course of further evolution and results in seemingly suboptimal structures.
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Homology - ✔✔similarity resulting from common ancestry
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vestigial structures - ✔✔remnant of a structure that may have had an important function in
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a species' ancestors, but has no clear function in the modern species.
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Anagenesis - ✔✔species formation without branching of the evolutionary line of descent.
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cladogenesis - ✔✔Branching evolution occurs when a new species branches out from a
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parent species
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Atavistic features - ✔✔reappearance of a trait lost in evolution
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adaptive radiation - ✔✔the diversification of a group of organisms into forms filling
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different ecological niches.
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biotic factors - ✔✔competition, predation, disease
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abiotic factors - ✔✔climate, topography, habitat
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