Evolution – Micro to Macro
The selection process used when Mara breeds only bright green chameleons.
What is artificial selection?
Holly can inherit eye color but not this trait, which is usually a choice.
What is hair style?
Banana slugs break down dead matter, making them this type of organism.
What is a decomposer?
Fungi and algae working together is an example of this.
What is mutualism?
These two factors cause populations to compete for shelter.
What are limiting resources and population size?
Darwin noticed this trait changed in finches based on their diet.
What is beak shape?
Fitness means surviving and doing this to pass on traits.
What is reproduction?
This type of succession happens after a forest fire.
What is secondary succession?
This term describes when two species help each other evolve.
What is coevolution?
The most direct cause of a bat population crash.
What is a fatal disease?
Change in traits of a population over time.
What is evolution?
Besides mutation, this process adds variation between populations.
What is gene flow?
The level on a food pyramid where cyanobacteria belong.
What is at the bottom?
The interaction where one species benefit and the other is harmed slowly.
What is parasitism?
One reason murres recovered faster than oystercatchers.
What is murres' food wasn’t hit as hard?
A brown wolf and gray wolf are an example of this within a species.
What is variation?
Structures that show shared ancestry between animals like whales and humans.
What are homologous structures?
This kind of factor limits barnacles when rock space runs out.
What is an abiotic limiting factor?
Predation and parasitism are alike because this happens.
What is one species benefits?
The process that starts when life regrows after a disturbance.
What is succession?
The two organelles thought to have evolved by endosymbiosis.
What are mitochondria and chloroplasts?
The outcome of long-term isolation and different environments in evolution.
What is macroevolution?
The forest consumer that would have the smallest population.
What is a hawk?
Birds eating fruit and spreading seeds is an example of this kind of evolution.
What is coevolution?
Plants produce more oxygen when these two things are high.
What are light and carbon dioxide?