Charles Darwin
Origins of Life
Geological Time Scale
Evidence of Evolution
Natural Selection
100
location where Darwin studied evolution
What is the Galapagos Islands?
100
theory that life happens spontaneously
What is Spontaneous Generation?
100
the age of the Earth
What are 4.5 billion years?
100
states that the older rock is on the bottom while the newer rock is on the top
What is the Law of Superposition?
100
individuals most fit to survive in the environment live on and pass desirable traits to offspring
What is natural selection?
200
job title of Darwin (with regards to what it was called in the past)
What is a naturalist?
200
explains how eukaryotes arose from prokaryotes
What is the Endosymbiont Theory?
200
the era we are in
What is the Cenozoic Era?
200
amount of time it takes a radioactive isotope to fall to half of its original value
What is half life?
200
similar to selective breeding
What is artificial selection?
300
theory Darwin countered with his Theory of Evolution
What is the LaMarkian Theory?
300
hypothesized organic molecules formed from conditions of ancient Earth
What is Primordial Soup?
300
era that reptiles arose
What is the Mesozoic Era?
300
examples of vestigal structures in humans
What are the appendix, coccyx, and inner eye?
300
measurement of how well an organism can survive in its environment
What is fitness?
400
organisms Charles Darwin studied for his theory on natural selection and evolution
What are tortoises and finches?
400
the substances responsible for creating proteins
What are the amino acids?
400
the way each era ends
What is mass extincton?
400
anatomically similar structures from a common ancestor
What is a homolgous structure?
400
change in allelic frequencies from a chance
What is genetic drift?
500
the unifying theory of biology that explains diversity
What is evolution?
500
supports the Endosymbiont Theory
What are chloroplasts and mitochondria?
500
amount of Earth's geological time taken up by the Precambrian Era
What is 85%?
500
can be descibed with a cladogram; never before seen in the fossil record
What is a derived structure?
500
when the average is favored over the extremes
What is stabilizing selection?
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