Helped scientists recognize that Earth is many millions of years old and the processes that changed Earth in the past are the same processes that operate in the present.
Who is James Hutton and Charles Lyell?
100
Characteristic that appears in recent parts of lineage,but not in its older members.
What is a derived character?
100
Microscopic fossils are also called____.
What is a microfossil?
200
Provides evidence of life on earth. It can also show how groups of organisms ,including species have changed over time.
What is a fossil record?
200
Definition of gene pool.
What is consists of all genes ,including all different alleles,that are present in a population?
200
Writes to Darwin speculating on evolution by natural selection,based on his studies of distribution of plants and animals.
Who is Alfred Wallace?
200
A cladagram shows _____.
What is the evolutionary relationships among a group of organisms?
200
Describe the endosymbiotic theory.
What is the theory that proposes that eukaryotic cells arose from the living communities formed by prokaryotic organisms?
300
Scientist calculate the age of a sample based on the number of remaining radioactive isotopes it contains in this specific technique used to predict the age of a fossil.
What is radioactive dating?
300
___________ is the when individuals from the upper and lower ends of the curve have higher fitness than individuals near the middle.
What is disruptive selection?
300
Name the book Charles Lyell wrote.
What is Principles of Geography?
300
Definition of phylogeny.
What is evolutionary relationships among organisms?
300
Hydrogen cyanide, carbon dioxide,carbon monoxide,nitrogen,hydrogen sulfide,and water were in ______.
What is Earth's early atmosphere?
400
_______________ allows paleontologist to estimate a fossil's age compared with that of other fossils.
What is relative dating?
400
Definition of genetic drift.
What is a random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations?
400
______ reasoned that if the human population continued to grow unchecked,sooner or later there would be insufficient living space and food for everyone.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
400
________ is used to show important similarities at the molecular level.
What is DNA?
400
Tiny bubble,formed of a large organic molecules,that has some characteristics of a cell.
What is a proteinoid microsphere?
500
Relative Dating and Radioactive Dating
What are two techniques that are used to determine the age of a fossil?
500
Name all the five conditions that are required to maintain genetic equilibrium from generation to generation.
What is random mating,large population,no movement into or out of the population,no mutations,and no natural selection?
500
_____ proposed that all organisms have an innate tendency toward complexity and perfection.
Who is Jean-Baptist Lamarck?
500
________ is a method of grouping organisms together according to their evolutionary history.
What is evolutionary classification?
500
In order for the Hardy Weinberg principle to be true no kind of evolution should have happened in the population because the principle says that there should be no mutation, no natural selection in a population this explains ____________.
What is how the theory of evolution and the Hardy Weinberg principle are related and what parts of the Hardy Weinberg principle relate to evolution?