Vocabulary
People
Big Ideas
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100
This is the technical definition of evolution.
What is a change in allele frequencies over time?
100
He said that species are an example of a divine "type" and that they are unchanging.
Who is Plato?
100
This claims that organism can be organized into a linear scheme; usually from simple to complex.
What is the Great Chain of Being?
100
This is how old the earth is.
What is 4.6 billion years old?
100
This says that species are often succeeded in an area by other, similar species.
What is the "law of succession?"
200
This is what will evolve.
What are populations?
200
His idea was the Great Chain of Being.
Who is Aristotle?
200
Proposed by Lamarck about how organisms arise.
What is spontaneous generation?
200
The oldest physical forms of life are this old.
What is 3.5 byo?
200
This is a fossil that shows an animal that has feathers and a bill like present birds and teeth and a bony tail like present-day reptiles.
What is Archaeopteryx?
300
These are inherited features of organisms that fit life habits, allowing them to survive and reproduce.
What are adaptations?
300
He proposed that species move up the Great Chain of Being.
Who is Lamarck?
300
This was Lyell's idea about geological change over time.
What is uniformitarianism?
300
The oldest chemical forms of life are from this long ago.
What is 3.8 bya?
300
This is a fossil that has properties of many lobed-finned fishes and some of terrestrial animals.
What is Tiktaalik?
400
This is an idea in geology that says that geological features are/can be produced by familiar forces working over long time spans.
What is uniformitarianism?
400
He wrote the poem that Dr. Anderson read in class.
Who is Darwin's Great Grandfather? (Erasmus Darwin)
400
This was the idea that Darwin and Wallace both had about how evolution happens.
What is populations change over time, not individuals
400
This is when the first animals are thought to have been on earth.
What is ~550 mya?
400
These are incompletely developed structures that have no/reduced function that are clearly similar to functioning organs in closely related species. BONUS: Give one example.
What are vestigial structures? BONUS: hind limbs in some snakes, coccyx in humans, hind limbs in some aquatic species.
500
This says that individuals change in response to their environment and pass these changes onto their offspring.
What is inheritance of acquired characters?
500
He said "Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution."
Who is Theodosius Dobzhansky?
500
This is the belief that species arise from pre-existing species and that this is how biodiversity arose.
What is descent with modification?
500
This is how old hominids are.
What is ~5-7 myo?
500
This is an example on the powerpoint slides about the geographic link between similar species. (an organism)
What are Hawaiian Pomace flies?
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