Darwin
What was the name of Darwin's book
On the Origin of Species
What is the unit of evolution
population
What was likely the first organic molecule to evolve?
RNA
What were the first fully terrestrial vertebrates
Amniotes
An organism's ability to survive and reproduce is called what
Fitness
What was the name of Darwin's boat
HMS Beagle
Structures that are similar in related organisms because they were inherited from a common ancestor are referred to as what
Homologous structures
A large prokaryotic cell engulfed a smaller bacterial cell and formed a mutualistic relationship that led to eukaryotic cell according to what concept
Endosymbiotic theory
as one species changes, another species also changes and adapts describes what concept
Coevolution
Speciation that occurs through geographic isolation is referred to as what
allopatric speciation
What was Thomas Malthus's main idea that influenced Darwin
That human populations grow faster than resources can accommodate causing weakest members to die
inherited structure that is no longer used but is still present in a modern organism who inherited it from an ancestor that used the structure
Vestigial structures
Which of the three domains of life contains both unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes
Eukarya
The study of the similarities and differences in the embryos of different species
Comparative embryology
Breeding animals and plants to produce favorable traits is an example of what
Artificial selection
What was Jean Baptiste Lamarck's main idea that influenced Darwin
That Species change over time
The study of fossils is called what
Paleontology
What was the oxygen catastrophe
When evolution of autotrophs created Earth’s atmosphere, killing off early cells that had evolved without oxygen
when a population suddenly gets much smaller and allele frequencies of the survivors may be different from those of the original population
Bottleneck effect
How do you write something in binomial nomenclature
Latin, two words, genus than species, italicized, first word capitalized second word lowercase
What were the two main components (ideas) of Darwin's work
Organisms change over time
Evolution occurs by natural selection
List the 7 classes of the Linnaean classification system in order from largest to smallest
Kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species
Development of what adaptation helped allow organisms to make the transition from living in the water to living on land?
Exoskeleton
The process by which a new species evolves is called what
speciation
The study of how and why plants and animals live where they do
Biogeography