The homology between two genes can be plotted in the form of a dot matrix

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Bergmann’s rule: populations in colder climates tend to have greater body mass than those

in warmer climates. This pattern is so common that it has a name.

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Haldane’s rule: hybrid sterility or hybrid inviability is often limited to the heterogametic sex. (The heterogametic sex is the one with two different sex chromosomes, while the homogametic sex has two sex chromosomes of the same type).

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Hamilton’s rule: It states that an allele that causes an altruistic behavior will spread if the following condition is met (rb>C)

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Cope’s rule: A proposed generalization that individual body size in animals tends to increase during evolution.

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Hitchhiking: Change in the frequency of an allele due to linkage with a selected allele at another locus.

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Dollo’s law: A biological generalization positing that complex characters, once lost in evolution, are extremely unlikely to reappear and thus the loss of complex characters is virtually always irreversible.