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Study of Evolution
Study of Evolution
A group of similar organisms that can also mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is the definition of species?
The natural prosses by which something takes place.
What is the definition of mechanism?
the prosses by which two species evolve in response to changes in eachother over time.
what is the definition of coevolution?
What is the definition of extinct?
what is the definition of proten?
A 22-year-old, out on a five-year trip around the world as a naturalist.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Nature filters out the weak, so only the winners survive to have babies with the same winning traits.
How does natural selection help a species to evolve?
The fitist individuals survive to reproduce and pass their traits to the next generation.
What is Darwis theory
A mold creates a hollow area in the rock that is the shape of an organism or part of an organism.
How do fossils form?
Something that uses gene transfer to pass an adaptive trait.
What are bacteria
A ship that traveled from Ecuador on the Pacific Ocean, west to the Galapagos Islands. Charals Darwin was aboard this ship.
what is the HMS Beagle ship?
A prosess by which individuals that are betteradopted to thir enviorment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other member of the same species.
What is natural selection?
First a dividing cell makes an erorror while copying its DNA. it is estimated every child get an avergage of 60 new ones.
what is mutation.
The preserver of the shape and structures of organisms.
What are body fossils?
changes in protins.
What leads to variations within a population?
A man who stated that the processes that created land features in the past were still active.
Who is Charels Lyell?
A man who studied heredity and genetics. his work showd that parents pass genes to thir offsring.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
natural selection that acts on an organisms ability to get the best possible mate.
What is sexual selection?
A small, gradual changes in the color or size of a cirtin population.
what is microevolution
A single-celled organism similar to modern bacteria or archaea.
What is LUCA?
A armadillos extinct reletive.
what is a Glyptodon?
the study of small changes to DNA that turn genes on or off but do not change the genetic code itself.
What is Epigenetics?
A tree with a select speciers on ants.
what is a acacia tree?
Evidence suppoting biological evolution is found in the fossil reocrd and in...
What are layers of sediment
something that can pass between individuals from different species.
What are genes?