Evidence
Macroevolution
Vocab
Mechanisms
100
Where do we find evidence for what extinct organisms looked like?
Fossils
100

Give an example of Co-Evolution

(Bees and Flowers) 
100

Graph used to show different organisms and how closely they are related in a line

Cladogram

100

Survival of the fittest

Natural Selection

200
What do we call similar body parts on dissimilar organisms that can be evidence for a common ancestor?
Homologous structures
200

Give an example of Divergent Evolution

Water and terrestrial iguanas, Red fox and artic fox, etc 

200

Genetic equilibrium means... 

No Evolution

200

Random change in DNA 

Mutations

300

when looking into a chicken's egg, a turtles egg and a rat fetus this evidence is likely called

embryology

300

Give an example of Convergent Evolution

Dolphins and sharks etc 

300

What is a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce?

Adaptation

300

When an individual leaves or joins a population

Gene Flow

400

No longer needed structures(what they are called, and a EXAMPLE 

Vestigial, etc

400

Slow and gradual evolution

gradualism 

400
What method of determining a fossils age estimates the age based on the location of the fossil in the rock?
Relative Dating
400

RANDOM change in allele frequency due to chance events

Genetic drift

500

Looking and DNA patterns and structures is called

Biochemistry

500
BIG change, then steady for a long time... 

Punctuated Equilibrium

500

All 7 levels in the classification system 

DKPCOFGS

500

An EXAMPLE of natural selection

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