This was the state of Earth's early atmosphere (hint: meaning it had no oxygen)
What is anaerobic?
100
These usually occur at random in populations and create traits that select for or against an individual organism.
What is a mutation?
100
This is the "father of taxonomy".
Who is Carl Linnaeus
100
This tool allows the user to arrive at the identification of an organism based on physical characteristics that can be observed.
What is a dichotomous key?
100
This type of organism aids the carbon cycle by utilizing CO2 to produce glucose.
What is an autotroph/photosynthesizer?
200
Aetiocetus is an example of this kind of fossil evidence for evolution. It shows the intermediate state between Pakicetus and modern whales.
What is transitional evidence?
200
This process occurs totally at random in all populations and the genes that are passed along are just "lucky" and are not necessarily healthier or better.
What is genetic drift.
200
This is the broadest range of the classification system.
What is a kingdom?
200
This type of tool is basically a "family tree" that shows how an organism has branched off from it's ancestors.
What is a phylogenetic tree?
200
This process is important because it allows the gametes to have half of the original number of chromosomes of the organism.
What is meiosis?
300
These are bodily structures that are anatomically similar to another species' comparable parts and suggest the potential for a common ancestor. Human, lizard, cat, bat, and bird forelimbs are an example.
What are homologous structures.
300
This is an event that causes a split in the lineage from one species into two or sometimes more species. Overtime as more and more changes occur, the two species will become so different that they couldn't produce viable offspring.
What is speciation?
300
This is the correct order of taxa categories.
What is kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?
300
This classification tool denotes shared characteristics between different organisms and also shows speciation events that create characteristics that separate one organism from another.
What is a cladogram?
300
This technique would be most likely used by forensic scientists.
What is DNA fingerprinting?
400
The Cytochrome C protein used to determine shared codon and amino acid groupings has been extremely helpful in this field of evolutionary evidence gathering.
What is biochemical evidence for evolution?
400
This is the leading cause in speciation and occurs when an event creates a physical barrier between members of a species.
What is geographic isolation?
400
This means "2 names" and is also called the scientific name of an organism.
What is binomial nomenclature.
400
On a phylogenetic tree, organisms that are closely related have this kind of proximity to one another.
What is close?
400
Enzymes are this type of macromolecule.
What is a protein?
500
This is how it is proposed that oxygen began to develop in Earth's early atmosphere.
What are photosynthesizing blue-green algae?
500
This organism saw a very rapid change over a course of a few years' time during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the peppered moth?
500
The scientific name for a snowy owl is Bubo scandiacus. This would be genus of the owl.
What is Bubo?
500
The branching out of a limb from a phylogenetic tree indicates this type of event has occurred.
What is speciation?
500
This is the name for the subunits of DNA that store genetic information.