Evolution Miscellaneous
Is natural selection a theory or a law?
The requirement of evolution that states that more organisms need to be born than could survive
What is Overproduction / Overpopulation?
The evidence of evolution that uses similar structures to show that populations of organisms are closely related.
What is comparative anatomy?
The name given to the population of organisms represented by the shared point at the bottom of a cladogram.
What is a common ancestor?
The band that Hal saw in Buffalo this November. This band also recorded the album that your class is named after.
Genesis
What birds did Darwin mainly study on the Galapogos?
Finches
The requirement of evolution that states that there needs to be differences in the population
What is variation?
The evidence of evolution that uses the buried remains of organisms to show that populations of organisms are related.
What is fossil evidence?
A population of organisms would be described as this if their branch on a cladogram does not make it all the way to the top of the diagram.
What is extinct?
The sports that Hal coaches.
What are football, wrestling, and quidditch?
The name for a property that bacteria have that makes them less likely to die when exposed to an antibiotic.
What is resistance?
A variation in a population that makes certain organisms more likely to survive and reproduce than other organisms
What is adaptation?
The evidence of evolution that uses similar DNA, RNA, or amino acid sequences (proteins) to show that populations of organisms are related. This is the most reliable evidence of evolution.
What is comparative biochemistry?
The point where all the branches on a cladogram come together.
What is the root of a cladogram?
Hal's age (you can be off by one year)
What is 37?
The pattern of evolutionary change that states that evolution occurs in very abrupt intervals followed by long periods of stability.
What is puncuated equilibrium?
The requirement of evolution that states that organisms better adapted to the environment will survive and reproduce at a higher rate than organisms that are not as well adapted.
What is natural selection?
The type of comparative anatomy structure that shows similar bone arrangement even though the structure may be used for different things.
What is a homologous structure?
Any group of populations on a cladogram that can be traced back to a common ancestor.
What is a clade?
The classes that Hal teaches.
What are Living Environment, Anatomy, and AP Biology?
The type of variation that results in a difference in how an organism works internally. Being able to digest a certain type of food that other members of a population cannot would be an example of this type of variation.
What is functional variation?
The form of selection where humans determine which organisms are going to surivive and reproduce.
What is artificial selection?
The type of comparative anatomy structure that shows very different bone arrangement even though the structure may be used for a similar purpose.
What is an analogous structure?
Points on a cladogram where there are common ancestors.
What are nodes?
The amount of Adirondack high peaks that Hal and Brie have hiked.
What is 30?