Theory of evolution
what is adaptation
The inherited characteristic that increases an organism’s chance to survive
what is an ecosystem
A community of living organisms .consisting of biotic and abiotic factors.
What can homologous structures infer about?
Common ancestors
List the three points about Lamark’s hypothesis
Tendency toward perfection; use and disuse; inheritance of acquired traits.
Who inspired Darwin’s idea of natural selection?
Jean Baptist’s Lamark
what’s another name for “artificial selection”
Selective breeding
what are the non-living factors
Abiotic factors
What’s the learning that explained penguins in South pole and polar bear in North Pole?
Biogeography
What’s tendency toward perfection?
Organisms are continually changing until perfection and can survive well in a community.
Who suggested that human population was growing faster than food production?
Thomas Malthus
what is natural selection?
The process by which individuals that have certain traits survive and reproduce at a higher rate than other individuals because of favorable traits.
organisms that can make their own food, usually producer.
Autotroph
What’s vestigial structure?
Structure that becomes useless and reduce in size over time.
What’s use and disuse?
Proposed that organisms could alter the size or shape of particular organs by using their bodies in new ways.
Who is Comte de Buffon?
First and foremost mathematician who helped invent calculus. First to assert that biogeography was evidence for evolution.
In natural selection, individuals do not evolve, _____
evolve.
Populations
Organisms that eat other living things for food and energy, usually consumer.
Heterotroph
Define homology
Similarity resulting from common ancestry
What’s Inheritance of acquired traits?
Thought that acquired characteristics could be inherited.
How did Erasmus Darwin influence Charles Darwin?
Grandfather; thoughts about how species changed over time.
True/false
according to Darwin’s theory of naturally selection, the individuals that tend to survive are those that have variations best suited the environment.
True
Difference between herbivores and carnivores
Herbivores usually eats grass/vegetables; carnivores usually eats meats
fossils found in the bottom layer are usually __ than the one found in top layer
Older
What are these three hypothesis known as?
Lamarckism Evolution
Who is the person that publish the idea of the process which made Earth before was same as today’s?
James Hutton