Categories of Living Things
Living things that do photosynthesis, do not move, and have a cell wall in their cells.
What are Plants?
This is used to provides evidence of a common ancestor to many species - is dug out of the ground
What is the Fossil Record?
The sum of all the genes possible in a population is called this.
What is a Gene Pool?
This is a feature humans have that primates do not.
What is Bipedalism?
These are cells that do NOT have a nucleus, and live everywhere.
What are Prokaryotic Cells?
This experiment showed how organic molecules could have been made from Earth's early atmosphere.
What is the Miller-Urey Experiment?
This is a permanent change to the DNA of an organism (can be caused by radiation).
What is a mutation?
This feature of humans has evolved (changed) since we started using tools.
What is "the size of our brains grew"?
This is what we call cell that HAVE a nucleus and membrane bound organelles, like you and me.
What are Eukaryotic cells?
These are anatomical structures that are seen in organisms that have a common ancestor.
What are Homologous structures?
This is a type of isolation that forms a new species, when species can't get to one another due to land changes.
Geographic Isolation
A graph showing babies die more often with high birth weights and low birth weights (but are healthiest at average birth rates) is showing this type of selection.
What is stabilizing selection?
These are not plants or green, but they do grow in the ground on dead or decaying material.
What are Fungi (mushrooms)?
The term for structures in two organisms that are not related but look similar - a bat and a bird.
What are analogous structures?
This is what it is called when migration of individuals from one population brings genes into another (example: pollen grains blowing by wind).
This "clock" shows how long species have been evolving separately.
What is a Molecular clock?
These are Prokaryotic organisms found everywhere, and some types can make you sick like Strep Throat.
What are Bacteria?
The mechanism of survival in a population that drives Evolution.
What is Natural Selection?
This is what occurs between individuals in a population that can drive evolution.
What is Competition?
This is a type of pressure where when one trait of a population is selected for (like dark moths survive and light moths all get eaten)
What is Selective pressure?