The ability to survive and reproduce in an environment.
What is fitness?
This person first proposed the idea of natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A group of organisms that can breed naturally in nature and have fertile offspring.
What is a species?
The preserved remains or traces of an organism from the past.
What are fossils?
This occurs when organisms are separated by a river, valley, mountain, etc.
What is geographical isolation?
Given the data below what is the Fish's most recent common ancestor?
Frog - 75%
Toad - 62%
Shark - 82%
Dolphin - 45%
What the Shark?
These are the building blocks (monomer) of proteins.
What are amino acids?
An inherited trait that enhances an organisms ability to survive. (Favorable variation)
What is an adaptation?
Said only populations evolve, not individuals.
Who is Darwin?
An explanation of an idea that is broad in scope and supported by a lot of evidence.
What is a scientific theory?
The study of similarities in the early development of embryos.
What is embryology?
This occurs when flowers pollinate in different seasons.
What is temporal isolation?
What does this image represent?
What are homologous structures?
These are building blocks (monomer) for nucleic acids (ex. DNA or RNA).
What are nucleotides?
Give two examples of selective pressures
What is predation, climate, environment, competition?
He proposed the principle of acquired traits.
Who is Lamarck?
A change in the genetic material which can cause variation in a population.
What is a mutation?
Structures that no longer have a function.
What is a vestigial structure?
When two birds no longer mate because one has developed a different song.
What is behavioral isolation?
What does this represent?
What is natural selection?
Transcribe this section of DNA
TAG-CCT
What is AUC - GGA?
Relationship between variations and adaptations.
What is favorable variations lead to adaptations.
Species do NOT change.
Who is NEITHER? (Lamarck and Darwin both believed that species change)
An event on a global scale where many species of organisms are wiped out.
What is mass extinction?
Studies fossils.
Who is a paleontologist?
When organisms can no longer mate this process occurs.
What is speciation?
What does the small, medium and large rabbits represent?
What is variation in a population?
What does this image represent?
What is a gene?
Hard facts that are used to make inferences.
What is evidence?
Snakes caused the gray mice to become faster in their lifetime.
Who is Lamarck?
A version of a trait.
What is an allele?
What is comparing DNA, Proteins, Genes, RNA, Amino Acids.
in order for two similar groups of organisms to form into different species, this must occur.
What is reproductive isolation?
What does this image represent?
Species vary locally.
These 2 processes cycle carbon through the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis and cellular respiration?