Evolution
The change of characteristics in species over time.
What is Evolution?
A range of many characteristics in different organisms.
What is Diversity?
A group of fossils which has been analyzed and arranged chronologically and in taxonomic order.
What are Fossil Record?
The study of embryo development.
What is Embryology?
The transitional creature between water to land animal.
What are Tetrapods?
A animal, plant, or any living thing.
What is an organism?
The theory by Charles Darwin that explores the process of when organisms become better adapted to their environment so they can survive and produce more offsprings.
What is Natural Selection?
The branch of biology that deals with the geographical distribution of plants and animals.
What is Bio-geography?
A molecule that all living organisms have in common.
What is DNA?
The transitional creature between reptile to mammal.
What are Cynodonts?
A famous man who had a theory about evolution.
Who was Charles Darwin?
Found in sediments, that are molded impressions left by organisms.
What is Trace Fossils?
A the branch of biology that studies the prenatal development of gametes.
What is Embryological Development?
The similarities in the bone structure but found in different species.
What is Homologous Structure?
Creatures that appear in small populations, between two different species.
What are Transitional Creatures?
An organism changing to be better suited for its environment.
What is Adaptation?
The branch of science, that studies fossilized animals and plants.
What is a paleontologist?
A structure in an organism that has lost all or most of its original function in the course of evolution, such as human appendixes.
What are Vestigial Structures?
Organisms of different species arises during speciation, in which new species are established from a single ancestral population.
What is Common Ancestry?
A branch of biology which studies the interactions between the organisms and their environment/ecosystem.
What is Ecology?
The relations between organisms.
What is Morphology?
A diagram that represents evolutionary relationships between organisms.
What is a Phylogenetic Tree?
The branch of biology that deals with the structure and function of the macromolecules essential to life.
What is Molecular Biology?
A man who proposed the theory of development and evolution involving embryology.
Who is Ernst Haeckel?
The conversion or transformation of one species into another.
What is Transmutation?