Charles Darwin
Classification
Organization and Interactions
Evolution of Populations
Ecology Vocab
100
The idea that the organisms best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing those traits off to their offspring.
What is Natural Selection
100
A two-word naming system.
What is Binomial Nomenclature
100
A fox eats a bunny
What is predation
100
A type of selection in which one trait has an advantage over the others which causes a shift in the population toward having that trait.
What is directional selection.
100
Animals that consume the carcasses of other animals
What are scavengers.
200
Trait that Darwin noticed on finches when the traveled the world.
What is different beak shapes based on the food the eat.
200
The science of naming and grouping.
What is systematics
200
Where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism
200
When a trait becomes more or less common in a population due to chance
What is genetic drift
200
An unwanted species that get's brought to a new habitat and takes over.
What is an invasive species.
300
Belief that existing plants and animals developed by a process of gradual change from a previously existing organism.
What is Descent with Modification
300
Taxonomic levels of organiation.
What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
300
Includes all the organisms and the nonliving environment found in a particular place.
What is an ecosystem
300
When two species reproduce at different times preventing them from mating with one another.
What is temporal isolation.
300
The range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which it uses those conditions.
What is a Niche
400
The breeding of domesticated plants and animals to select for desired traits.
What is artificial selection.
400
A diagram that shows patterns of shared characteristics among species.
What is a cladogram
400
A group of individuals that belong to the same species, live in the same area and can produce offspring.
What is a population
400
The idea that evolution occurs by small changes over long periods of time
What is gradualism.
400
The first species to colonize barren areas.
What is primary succession.
500
The leg of an alligator and the arm of a human
What are homologous structures
500
Biologists 3 domain system of grouping organisms.
What are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya
500
An interaction in which one animal feeds on producers
What is herbivory
500
When two species evolve in response to changes in each other over time.
What is Coevolution
500
Nitrogen fixation.
What is a process that bacteria undergo.
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