Theory
Changes in allele frequencies in a population over time.
What is Evolution?
Believed that every species has an unchangeable essence.
What is Plato?
A collection of fossils documenting the history of life on Earth.
What is fossil records?
Contains DNA, double-stranded, and bound to nucleoproteins.
What is a Chromosome?
Product of mutation & recombination, the environment, and maternal effects.
What is Variation?
Organisms that produce more ________ are more likely to survive.
What is offspring?
19th-century inventor of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
What is Charles Darwin?
_____ is considered the best fossil.
What is hard-shelled plankton?
The cell division process consists of 4 stages. (prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase)
What is Mitosis?
Is considered evolution by random chance.
What is genetic drift?
Evolution Requirements
What are populations, variation, heredity, and differential fitness?
4th-century inventor of teleology.
What is Aristotle?
Basic geological fossil records include _______.
What is rock formation, plate tectonics, geological time, and sedimentary rocks?
The genetic blueprint for an organism.
What is genotype?
A principle stating that the genetic variation in a population will remain constant from one generation to the next in the absence of disturbing factors.
What is Hardy-Weinberg principle?
The different ways of evolving include.
What is natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow, sexual selection, and non-random mating?
7th-6th century philosopher believed that land animals evolved from fish.
What is Anaximander of Miletos?
Science of classification.
What is systematics?
The study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression.
What is epigenetics?
______ theory states most mutations are neither beneficial nor harmful.
What is neutral?
________ biology makes important contributions to other disciplines.
What is evolutionary?
18th-century creator of binomial nomenclature.
What is Carl Linnaeus?
The idea that evolution is not always a gradual process but often occurs in short bursts in between long periods of stability.
What is punctuated equilibrium?
Previously functional gene that lost its function due to mutation.
What is Pseudogene?
An increase in homozygosity, differences between phenotypes increases, and linkage equilibrium are all consequences of _________.
What is Inbreeding?