Evolution Vocabulary
The mechanism that drives evolution
What is natural selection?
We find fossils in this layer
What is sedimentary rock?
True or False: Individuals can evolve.
False
This is the ocean that the islands are in where the Father of Evolution discovered the finches
What is the Pacific ocean?
These are evidence for evolution that an archaeologist would find
What are fossils?
Differences in shape, structure or function
What is variation?
The law of Superposition states this
What is oldest layer on the bottom and youngest layer on top?
A trait that gives an organism an advantage in its environment
What is an adaptation?
This person is the "Father of Evolution"
Who is Charles Darwin?
This type of structure is no longer a functional part of the organism but may have functioned some time ago
What is a vestigial structure?
A spontaneous change in the DNA of an organism that was not inherited from the previous generation
What is a mutation?
This is an interruption in the rock layers?
What is an intrusion?
Every organisms main goal is to ______and ___________
What is survive and reproduce?
Finches have different size beaks for this reason
What is they eat different things?
This part of comparative anatomy is concerned with structural similarities that show a common ancestor
What is homologous structure?
he genetic constitution of an individual organism.
What is genotype?
This theory involves the shifting of the Earth's solid outer crust, the lithosphere, separated into plates that move over the asthenosphere, the molten upper portion of the mantle. Oceanic and continental plates come together, spread apart, and interact at boundaries all over the planet.
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
This is the reason most organisms go extinct
Environmental changes
These are the islands where the "Father of Evolution discovered his finches
Galapagos Islands
Similarities in this show evidence that is not obvious when the organism is an adult
What is embryological evidence?
the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.
(the things you can see)
What is phenotype?
The 3 things that indicate a fossil
What are an organism(living thing), from the past (at least 10,000 years), that is preserved?
Taxonomy is the biological classification. Name 2 of the classifications. Example: Kingdom
What are Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, or Species?
This helped the population of finches survive. Something we strive for in society.
What is diversity?
This part of comparative anatomy shows a similarity in function but no ancestral link
What is analogous structure?