History of Life
Classification
Evolution in Populations
Evolutionary Theory
Misc
100
Extinction due to natural selection
What is Background Extinction
100
The science of naming and grouping organisms
What is Systematics
100
Occurs when two or more species reproduce at different times
What is Temporal Isolation
100
Describes how well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment
What is Fitness
100
Observed variations in characteristics of plants and animals on different islands of the Galapagos?
Who is Charles Darwin
200
The time required for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay
What is Half-life
200
In Linnaeus’ system of classifying organisms, organisms are grouped together into this
What is Taxa
200
The combined genetic information of all members of a particular population
What is Gene Pool
200
An inherited characteristic that increases an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in its specific environment
What is Adaptation
200
Researchers who study fossils to learn about ancient life
What is Paleontologist
300
The process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other over time
What is Coevolution
300
A trait that arose in the most recent common ancestor of a particular lineage and was passed along to its descendants
What is Derived Character
300
A random change in a small population’s allele frequency
What is Genetic Drift
300
What would an animal breeder use to increase the number of cows that give the most milk
What is Artificial Selection
300
Earth’s early atmosphere contained little or no this
What is Oxygen
400
The process that produces similar-looking structures in unrelated groups of organisms
What is Convergent Evolution
400
A branch of a cladogram that consists of a single common ancestor and all the descendants of that ancestor
What is A Clade
400
Traits, such as human height, that are controlled by more than one gene
What is Polygenic Traits
400
Intermediate fossil forms are important evidence of evolution because they show
What is How organisms change over time
400
This occurs in any situation in which more individuals are born than can survive
What is Natural selection
500
Cladograms that are based on the fossil record always show
What is Relationships based on shared derived characteristics
500
Name Linneasus’ original seven hierarchical taxa (Small to Larger)
What is Species, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom
500
Occurs when individuals at the outer ends of the curve have higher fitness than those in the center of the curve
What is Disruptive Selection
500
Patterns in the distribution of living and fossil species tell us how modern organisms evolved from their ancestors
What is Biogeography
500
In their experiment that modeled conditions on ancient Earth, Miller and Urey used electric sparks to simulate this
What is Lightning
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