Taxonomy
Define taxonomy
Classifying things and organizing them into groups
What idea is Darwin responsible for?
Natural selection (survival of the fittest)
Define evolution.
Change over time
Modification of something or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.
Adaptation
Define Zoology
study of animals
The traits of organisms that result from sharing a common ancestor; such traits often have similar embryological origins and development.
Homologous structure
An organ that was used by an organisms ancestors but no longer has a use.
Vestigial organ
Evidence of evolution?
Fossil
Geography
Embryology
Anatomy
Direct observation
Whale flipper and bat wing
homologous structures
Darwin's peer in college was
Alfred Russell Wallace
The 4 species that Darwin observed on the Galapagos Islands
Blue-footed Booby
Tortoises
Marine Iguana
Finches
Define speciation
formation of a new species
The largest organ of the body
skin
Descent with modification
A trait of evolution in which species not of similar recent origin acquire similar properties due to natural selection.
Convergent Evolution
A trait that makes an animal more "fit"
Adaptation
What is herpetology?
study of reptiles
The change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations.
Evolution
What are the key components of Natural Selection?
Variation
Overproduction
Adaptation
Decent with modification
John Lamarck is responsible for what idea?
inheritance of acquired traits (use it or lose it)
Define analogous structrure
Preform the same function but evolved separately