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- Q1A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.natural selection30s
- Q2A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals.extinction30s
- Q3the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resourcescompetition30s
- Q4A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.species30s
- Q5Formation of new speciesspeciation30s
- Q6form of reproductive isolation in which two populations reproduce at different timestemporal isolation30s
- Q7form of reproductive isolation in which two populations are separated physically by geographic barriers such as rivers, mountains, or stretches of watergeographic isolation30s
- Q8Form of reproductive isolation in which two populations have differences in courtship rituals or other types of behavior that prevent them from interbreedingbehavioral isolation30s
- Q9form of reproductive isolation in which two populations live in the same area, but they occupy different habitats and rarely encounter each otherecological isolation30s
- Q10form of reproductive isolation where mating is attempted, but morphological differences prevent its successful completionmechanical isolation30s
- Q11form of reproductive isolation where the sperm of one species is not able to fertilize eggs of another speciesgametic isolation30s
- Q12mechanism of speciation involving the separation of a population so that they no longer interbreed and evolve into two separate speciesreproductive isolation30s
- Q13genetic drift that occurs after a small number of individuals colonize a new areafounder effect30s
- Q14random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations as a result of chance eventsgenetic drift30s
- Q15a model of evolution that theorizes that the rate of speciation is a slow, uniformed processgradualism model30s