Taxonomy
Classification
Evolution
Evidence for Evolution
Evidence for Evolution 2
100
Scientist who developed the standardized classification system.
Who was Carolus Linnaeus?
100
There are this many levels in the classification system.
What is 8?
100
The gradual change in a populations genetic composition over successive generations
What is Evolution?
100
The three categories that provide evidence for evolution
What are comparative anatomy, molecular comparisons (DNA), and fossil records.
100
This is how natural selection leads to evolution.
What is variation of DNA in individuals help them adapt to the changing environment?
200
Another term for scientific name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
200
The 3 domains
What are bacteria, archaea, and eukarya?
200
The father of the Theory of Evolution
Who was Charles Darwin?
200
Remains of ancient species that have been preserved.
What is fossil
200
Preserved 3d impressions of remans buried in sediment
What is a cast?
300
The science of describing, classifying, and naming living things.
What is taxonomy?
300
The 4 kingdoms in the Euykarya domain.
what are Plant, animal, fungus, Protista?
300
The process by which organisms with traits that are helpful for survival and reproduction in a particular environment and tend to leave more offspring.
What is Natural Selection?
300
This evidence for evolution is called
What is embryology?
300
similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor, but the features serve completely different functions
What are homologous structures?
400
I can be autotropic and heterotopic, unicellular and multicellular I belong the kingdom
What is Protista?
400
The levels of taxonomy from largest to smallest
What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
400
3 main components of Natural Selection
What are variation, heritability, and reproductive success.
400
Choose the species most closely related
1 & 3
6 & 7
8 & 1
5 & 6
What is 5&6
400
The 5 major steps in fossil formation.
What are 1. organism dies and soft remains decompose/ are eaten.
2. Remains are covered by sediment
3. Remains breakdown leaving holes which are filled in with minerals
4. A copy of the organism forms out of the minerals
5. Uplift/erosion brings fossils to the surface