Experimental Design
King Phillip Came Over For Gold Silver
What is the mnemonic device for the order of classification within a Domain?
More offspring are born than can survive.
What is the prerequisite for natural selection that requires competition?
Gathering data with all senses. NO interpretation. Much harder to do than it sounds!
What is an observation?
On the eastern islands of the archipelago monkeys inhabited the trees; on the western islands of the archipelago marsupials inhabited the trees.
What is the Wallace Line?
The only Domain which does not include prokaryotes.
What is Eukarya?
Individuals of a species are not clones (identical) .
What is a prerequisite of natural selection based on variation?
An explanation. AKA hypothesis. What we usually jump to.
What is an inference?
How species (living and extinct) are distributed geographically.
What is biogeography?
Contains no membrane bound organelles.
What is prokaryote? Follow up question - which of the Domains are prokaryotic?
Trait that enhances survival and reproduction in a particular habitat.
What is an adaptation?
Saying what you think will happen next if one's hypothesis is correct.
What is a prediction? Follow up question: In what tense must all predictions be written?
There is a meaningful relationship in the data, but not necessarily cause and effect.
What is correlative data?
A study in which all variables are held constant except for the one whose effect is being studied.
What is a controlled experiment? Follow up question: If given a description of a study, how could you tell whether or not it was a controlled study?
Genus species
What comprises the binomial scientific name?
Change in a population's gene pool
What is evolution?
If (the IV) is _________, then (the DV) will ___________.
What is the convention for writing a hypothesis?
They are similar in design and share evolutionary lineage.
What are homologous structures?
Data that can only be generated by a controlled study.
What is causative data? Follow up question - Why can this data only be generated by controlled studies? What kind of data is generated by all other studies?
Understanding of Evolution. Technology (microscopes and DNA)
What explains why we went from two Kingdoms in the 1700's time to 6 Kingdoms in the 1990's
The number of individuals of a species living in an area
What is a population?
In science it is an inference that explains a broad range of phenomena and has been supported by multiple lines of evidence.
What is a theory?
A group of species that all descend from a common ancestor and all descendants from that ancestor.
What is a clade?