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Animal that uses a sponge for foraging in the ocean.
What is a bottlenose dolphin?
Evolution that occurs at or above the species level.
What is macroevolution?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
Most important characteristic to be considered a cultural trait.
What is transmissible?
An organism's unique genetic makeup, or specific combinations of alleles (gene variants) it inherits from its parents.
What is a genotype?
Parts of a phylogenetic tree that represent the common ancestors of the organisms being studied.
What is a node?
Process where organisms with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing those advantageous traits to their offspring.
What is natural selection?
A temporary copy of the DNA that is used to transfer the information.
What is RNA?
Type of transmission where individuals learn from unrelated adults.
What is oblique transmission?
A change in an organism's DNA.
What is a mutation?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships between different organisms, illustrating how they have diverged from common ancestors over time.
What is a phylogenetic tree?
The study of evolutionary relationships among organisms.
What is phylogenetics?
Gene that was selected for in humans after the domestication of animals?
What is lactase?
The process of synthesizing a protein from the genetic information encoded in a messenger RNA molecule.
What is translation?
The oldest surviving religion in the world.
What is Hinduism?
A distinguishing characteristic or feature of an organism that can be influenced by its genes, environment, or both, and can be passed down to offspring.
What is a trait?
The basic units of heredity that are found in all living organisms.
What is a gene?
Creation and transmission of new cultural traits.
What is innovation?
Change in the frequency of alleles (gene variants) in a population due to random chance.
What is genetic drift?
These organic molecules are the "building blocks of life".
What are amino acids?
English naturalist and biologist known as the "Father of Evolution" for his theory of evolution by natural selection, which proposed that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The flow of genetic information in a biological system, described as a two-step process where DNA is transcribed into RNA, and then RNA is translated into protein.
What is the Central Dogma?
The theory that genetic and cultural evolution are interdependent.
What is Gene-Culture Coevolution?
A classic example of natural selection where a genetic mutation offers a survival advantage against malaria, even though inheriting two copies of the gene is harmful.
What is sickle cell anemia?