Evolution
Animals becoming used to their surroundings
What is adaptation?
How an animal acts physically or mentally
What is behavior?
Animals going against each other for food or mates
What is competition?
The act of animals successfully reproducing
What is fitness?
Different species in the same or similar populations
What is a gene pool?
Variation between species and genes is called...
Genetic Variation
The separation of animals due to their surroundings
What is Geographic Separation?
Specific characteristic of an individual
trait
What is Morphology?
How organisms are selected by nature based off of their traits
What is natural selection?
The expression of an organism's genes
What is physiology?
A number of organisms or species
What is population?
The inability to reproduce with other species that are not your own.
What is reproductive isolation?
Traits or abilities based off of gender.
What is sexual selection?
The process of evolution which new species come from a species that already exists.
What is Speciation?
The term to describe a group of animals or organisms
What is species?
same structures, different function
homologous structures
different structures, same functions
analogous structures
key to find what a species name is
what is a dichotomous key?
structures that are not used anymore
vestigial structures
less amino acid differences
closer related
more amino acid differences
less closely related
Preserved remnants of once living organisms
What are fossils?
gradual change of species over time
What is evolution?