changes in population genetics in which extreme values for a trait are favored over intermediate values
What is disruptive?
100
Darwin studied on this island
What is Galapagos?
100
The four major eras of Earth's life are
What is Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.
100
a technique used to date materials such as rocks or carbon
What is Radiometric dating?
100
the branch of biology that studies the development of gametes, fertilization, and development of embryos and fetuses, also used to prove evolution.
What is embryology?
200
which genetic diversity decreases and the population mean stabilizes on a particular trait value
What is stabilizing?
200
Darwin studied these characteristics on these organisms
What is beaks on finches and/or shells on tortoises.
200
This happened in the cenozoic
What is the first primates, first humans, or first elephants?
200
the science of determining the relative order of past events, without necessarily determining their absolute age
What is relative dating?
200
the branch of science that explores the chemical processes within and related to living organisms
What is biochemistry?
300
a single phenotype is favored, causing the allele frequency to continuously shift in one direction
What is directional?
300
Darwin wrote this book called
What is The Origin of Species
300
The first single celled organisms came around in the Precambrian era about years ago
What is 1.2 billion years ago?
300
the time taken for the radioactivity of a specified isotope to fall to half its original value.
What is half life?
300
name the three types of structures that provide evidence of the evolution process
What is homologous structures, analogous structures, and vestigial structures?
400
a similarity of one species to another that protects one or both
What is mimicry?
400
Darwin sailed on this boat
What is the HMS Beagle?
400
Dinosaurs died out in the Mesozoic era around years ago
What is 65 million years ago?
400
Radiometric dating is commonly applied to
What is organic materials, such as bones, trees, seeds, food, or wooden artifacts
400
when very different animals have bones that appear very similar in form or function and seem to be related
What is homologous structures?
500
a term that refers to a population of animals, plants, or other organisms that are separated from exchanging genetic material with other organisms of the same species
What is geographic isolation?
500
Charles Darwin is known as
What is a geologist, a naturalist, and the father of evolution?
500
In the era, the first land plats, fish, and reptiles came around.
What is Paleozoic?
500
the oldest strata will be at the bottom of the sequence, while the newest will be on the surface
What is law of superposition?
500
strutures that have similar form or function, but that were not present in the last common ancestor of those groups