LESSON 1 TOPICS
The term for the preserved remains of ancient organisms?
What are fossils?
The name of the ship Charles Darwin traveled on
What is the HMS Beagle?
The phrase/term used to describe the best adapted individuals in a population who reproduce more successfully
What is survival of the fittest?
The type of natural selection that favours the average trait and selects against extreme variations
what is stabilizing selection?
This is the study of the early stages of development of an organism
What is embryology?
Who is Charles Lyell?
Camels' humps are this type of adaption, used to store fat
What is a structural adaptation?
This type of natural selection that favours one extreme trait over others, shifting the populations trait's in a particular direction
The more closely related two organisms are, the more similar these are in common
Name two ideas from Darwin's Theory of Natural selection
overproduction, competition, variation, adaptation, natural selection, speciation
Name the three categories of adaptations
Behavioural, structural, physiological
the term for when natural selection favours both extremes of continuous variation
what is disruptive selection?
Changes in the frequency of alleles in this, over time, constitute evolution
what is a gene pool?
The publication of this book in 1859 presented Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection
What is "On the Origin of Species?"
These are the physical features of an organisms body that help it survive
what are structural adaptations?
What is artificial selection?
This is the term for the complete set of genetic material in an organism
What is a genome?
This is the term that Charles Lyell used to explain that the present is the key to the past
What is uniformitarianism?