Evolution
The study of geographic distribution of life forms on Earth.
What is Biogeography?
Proposed Natural Selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The scientific study of life
What is Biology?
The discipline of biology that identifies, names, and classifies organisms according to certain rules.
What is taxonomy?
A tentative explanation for what was observed.
What is a hypothesis?
The remains and traces of past life or any other direct evidence of past life.
What are fossils?
Developed the binomial system of nomenclature.
Who is Linnaeus?
The basic unit of structure and function in all living things.
What are cells?
The study of evolutionary relationships between organisms.
What is systematics?
The results of an experiment.
What is data?
The relative reproductive success of an individual.
What is Fitness?
Founded the science of paleontology and proposed catastrophism.
A collection of interacting populations within the same environment.
What are communities?
Unicellular prokaryotes that live in extreme environments probably similar to primitive Earth.
What are Archaea? (Domain Archaea)
What is Observation, Make Predictions/Create Experiment, Gather Data, Analyze Data and Results, Draw Conclusions?
Structures that serve the same function but do not share a common ancestor.
What are analogous structures?
Provided evidence of descent with modification, wrote a 44-volume catalog of all known plants and animals.
Who is Count Buffon?
The maintenance of internal conditions within certain boundaries.
What is Homeostasis?
What two categories are included into binomial nomenclature? (Bonus for double: How should the font look?)
What is italicized?
Which group is NOT given the experimental variable?
What is the control group?
These structures may be reduced or obsolete in function is some groups of organisms.
What are Vestigial Structures?
Proposed uniformitarianism.
The sum of the chemical reactions that occur in a cell.
What is metabolism?
Which taxa comes comes after Class? (Which is LESS inclusive?)
What is Order?
The factor being tested.
What is experimental/independent variable?