History
The proposed ancestor of all modern life.
What is LUCA?
The term for species that are no longer alive.
What is Extinct?
The term for species that are still alive.
What is Extant?
A consequence of artificial selection and the reason why you can't marry your cousin.
What is Inbreeding?
The process of becoming a fossil.
What is Fossilization?
One of the Founders of the Theory of the Evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
The enhanced reproductive success of certain individuals from a population on inherited characteristics.
What is Natural Selection?
Humans select those animals or plants that have a desired trait; they then allow only those "superior" individuals to mate.
What is Artificial Selection?
The term for how many offspring there are per birth.
What is Fecundity?
The measurement of one's ability to reproduce.
What is Fitness?
The belief that God created everything.
What is Creationism?
Structures with related ancestry but different Functions.
What are Homologous Structures?
When species diverge into different body plans and traits when coming from similar ancestry.
What is Divergent Evolution?
Breeding for a certain median or middle trait.
Hint: ________ Selection
What is Stabilizing Selection?
The three phases of Prehistoric Human Development.
What are Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic?
The other Founder of the Theory of Evolution
Who is Alfred R. Wallace?
Structures with similar functions but different ancestry.
What are Analogous Structures?
What is Convergent Evolution?
Breeding against the median, pushing the populations into the two extreme iterations of the trait.
Hint: ________ Selection
What is Disruptive Selection?
Being fossilized, encased in hardened tree resin.
What is Amber?
The theistic argument that certain features, such as eyes, are too complex to evolve naturally.
What is Intelligent Design?
Large-scale evolutionary events, such as the appearance of new species.
Bonus(+100 pts): Small, generation-by-generation changes to a population's gene pool.
What is Macroevolution?
Bonus(+100 pts): What is Microevolution?
New functions that arise from physical and chemical interactions among a system's components.
What is Emergent Property?
Choosing a trait and selecting against one side of the population curve.
Hint: ________ Selection
What is Directional Selection?
Random changes in genes.
What is mutations?