Variation Of Traits
What's the definition of inherit?
To receive from a person who has died.
What are the preserved remains of ancient organisms?
Fossils.
What is natural selection?
A mechanism of evolution.
What organism produces complex organic compounds using carbon from simple substances such as carbon dioxide, generally using energy from light or inorganic chemical reactions.
Autotroph.
What are animals that sit at the top of the food chain?
Tertiary consumers.
What's the definition of reproduction?
The act or process of reproducing or state of being reproduced.
What is formed when plant or animal matter is changed to stone?
Imprint.
What are the 4 theories of natural selection?
overproduction, inherited, variation, struggle to survive, successful reproduction.
What is an an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter.
Heterotorph.
What are part of the food chain and break down organic material, allowing the nutrients to be used elsewhere.
Decomposers.
What's the definition of varication?
The act or process of changing or the condition of being changeable.
Collection of fossils that show a change within a species over time.
Fossil record.
Who is given credit for his theories on natural selection?
Darwin.
What are organisms that utilize inorganic carbon and sunlight to produce food, like grass.
Primary producers.
What is the term for an animal that eats meat?
Carnivore.
What determines the trait of an offspring?
genes received from the offspring parents.
What are (name at least one) areas that we find preserved fossils?
Tarpits, amber, and or ice (flash frozen).
What hypothesis deals with how the way life changes over time?
Revolutionary hypothesis.
What are animals that directly consume autotrophic animals?
Primary consumers.
What is the name for animals that only eat vegetation?
Herbivore.
What is the difference of physical traits and personality traits?
Physical traits are mainly determined by a persons genes: Personality traits determined by both a persons genes and environment.
What has been found to give us information and history from said 'fossils'?
Teeth and bones (tarpits), insects (amber), and whole organisms frozen in time (intact wooly mammoth).
What is it called when organisms produce offspring until some outside force stops it.
Overpopulation.
What are animals that eat primary consumers called?
Secondary consumers.
What is the name for animals that eat both meat and vegetyation?
Omnivore.