Evolution
The father of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
A change in gene variation over time
What is evolution?
A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile, viable offspring
What is a species?
The study of interactions at the level of DNA regulation
What is Molecular Biology?
This organelle defines a eukaryotic cell
What is the nucleus?
Darwin reasoned that this animal on the Galapagos Islands were modified descendants of their mainland counterpart.
What are finches?
The rate at which a specific allele appears within a population
What is allele frequency?
These are used to show evolutionary relationships among organisms
What are phylogenetic trees?
What is population genetics?
This process allows organisms to maintain internal conditions within an optimal range continually
What is homeostasis?
A trait that increases the environmental fitness of an organism.
What is an adaptation?
Sum of all the alleles in a population
What is a gene pool?
Based around the geographic separation of populations.
What is allopatric speciation?
The study of plants
What is botany?
Process that is the foundation of scientific inquiries
What are verifiable observations?
Structures that have no apparent function
What are vestigial structures?
The name of this equation used to calculate genetic variation of a population: p2+2pq+q2=1
What is the Hardy-Weinberg population?
Speciation occurring within populations that continue to inhabit the same space
What is sympatric speciation?
The study of fossils to study life's history
What is paleontology?
Scientists used shared biological components such as this organelle to determine relationships among the three domains of life.
What are ribosomes?
Natural selection favors an average phenotype, against extreme variation
What is stabilizing seletion?
Theory that states that females choose males with impressive ornaments to pass them on to their offspring
What is the good genes hypothesis?
When individuals mate with partners phenotypically similar to them
What is Assortative Mating?
The field of biology that is an interdisciplinary science in its own right
The system that scientists use to facilitate discussion about a specific organism
What is Binomial Nomenclature?