Discovery of Evolution
Classification
Evidence of Evolution
Evolution Movement
Nature of Science
100
What organism has DNA most similar to humans?
Chimpanzees
100
What branch of biology that studies grouping and naming of organisms?
Taxonomy
100
What are preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms?
Fossils
100
What are the two types of genetic drift?
Founder's Effect and Bottleneck Effect
100
What is one piece of science lab equipment that we will use this year?
beakers, googles, slides, microscopes, pipettes, twezzers, flasks, aprons, etc.
200
Who is the person that discovered evolution?
Charles Darwin
200
What organism is least related to humans?
Fish
200
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed about 335 million years ago?
Pangea
200
What is a change in trait frequency following a dramatic reduction in the size of the population due to a natural disaster or overhunting?
Bottleneck Effect
200
What percentage of student's received A's and B's?
35-40%
300
What does it mean if an organism is the fittest organism?
Most likely to survive and reproduce
300
What traits do salamanders have?
lungs and backbones
300
What are features/behaviors inherited from ancestors that no longer seems to have a purpose in the current form of an organism?
Vestigial Structures
300
What results when the trait frequencies changes as a result of the migration of a small group of the population?
Founder's Effect
300
What graph show the value of something over time?
Line Graph
400
What is any heritable characteristic that increases an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in its environment?
Adaptation
400
What is binomial nomenclature?
The scientific name for organisms (two words italicized)
400
What are similar structures that are shared by related species and have been inherited from a common ancestor?
Homologous Structures
400
What is this image an example of?
Bottleneck Effect
400
What is the part of the experiment that we are changing?
Independent Variable
500
What states all species, living and extinct, are united by descent from ancient common ancestors?
The Principle of Common Descent
500
Name the eight levels of classification in order.
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
500
What are the four evidence of evolution?
Homologous Structures
Analogous Structures
Vestigial Structures
Fossils
500
What is this image an example of?
Founder's Effect
500
Covert 0.00756 into scientific notation.
7.56 x 10^-3