Themes of Biology
What is evolution?
Darwin's proposed mechanism that drives evolution.
A tentative answer to a well-framed question.
What is a hypothesis?
An inherited characteristic that improves an organism's chance of survival.
What is an adaptation?
The number of years Mrs. Brown has been teaching.
What is 7 (this is my 7th year)
The smallest taxon (level) of biological classification.
What is species?
Scientist who proposed that organisms evolve based on use and disuse of features and that those features are then passed on to offspring.
Who is Lamarck?
A broad scientific claim supported lots of evidence.
What is a theory?
Selection of traits chosen by humans.
What is artificial selection?
The name of Mrs. Brown's snake.
What is Fuego?
The domain that includes fungi, plants, and animals.
What is eukarya?
Scientist who developed the first biological classification system and proposed that similarities in organisms are due to their creation by God.
Who is Linnaeus?
The experimental component that is intentionally changed.
What is the independent variable?
Similarity resulting from shared ancestry.
What is homology?
The day and location of Mrs. Brown's office hours.
What are Tuesdays and room 303?
The largest level of organization discussed in AP Biology, which includes all of the areas where life exists.
What is the biosphere?
Paleontologist who observed different fossils in various strata (layers) of rock and suggested that major events caused mass extinctions.
Who is Cuvier?
What is a controlled experiment?
Independent evolution of similar features in different lineages.
What is convergent evolution?
The date of the 2023 AP Bio exam.
When is May 10?
Properties that arise in higher levels of organization due to the interactions of lower levels.
What are emergent properties?
Scientist who proposed evolution by natural selection at the same time as Darwin but let Darwin take the credit.
Who is Alfred Russell Wallace?
The type of data that includes descriptions, like red or vanilla.
What is qualitative data?
Structure that no longer serves an important purpose in an organism's anatomy but remains anyway.
What is a vestigial structure?
Mrs. Brown's dog's names.
What are Copper, Coal, and Hazel?