BIOL 112 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Null Hypothesis, Consanguinity, Disruptive Selection
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Corroborate to confirm or give support to. Paucity presence of something only in small or insufficient quantity. Proxy authority to represent someone else, especially in voting. Compendium a collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject. Consanguinity relating to or denoting people descended from the same ancestor. Sessile fixed in one place: you can"t do anything in science without a hypothesis, the null hypothesis is when there is no change, truth table: True or false: science cannot prove anything to be true. Because of this, humans and chimps share derived characteristics. ) Three patterns of natural selection: only shared derived characteristics used to distinguish one group from another. Those traits that aided survival to this point extreme phenotypes are selected against phenotypes are selected against. Cladistics: 0 = out-group, 1 = derived condition, 0 = when it is the same as the out-group, 1 = when it is changed from the out-group.
