Taxonomy
Classification
Evolution
Evidence for Evolution
Evidence for Evolution 2
100
Scientist who developed the standardized classification system.
Who was Carolus Linnaeus?
100
There are this many levels in the classification system.
What is 8?
100
The gradual change in a populations genetic composition over successive generations
What is Evolution?
100
The 4 categories that provide evidence for evolution
What are comparative anatomy, molecular comparisons (biochemistry, DNA), embryology, and fossil records?
100
This is how natural selection leads to evolution.
What is variation of DNA in individuals that help them adapt/survive in the changing environment?
200
Another term for scientific name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
200
The 3 domains
What are bacteria, archaea, and eukarya?
200
The father of the Theory of Evolution
Who was Charles Darwin?
200
Remains of ancient species that have been preserved.
What is fossil
200
Feature of an organism that has lost most or all of its function.
What is a vestigial structure?
300
The science of describing, classifying, and naming living things.
What is taxonomy?
300
The 4 kingdoms in the Euykarya domain.
what are Plant, animal, fungus, Protista?
300
The process by which organisms with traits that are helpful for survival and reproduction in a particular environment and tend to leave more offspring.
What is Natural Selection?
300
This evidence for evolution is called
What is embryology?
300
similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor, but the features serve completely different functions
What are homologous structures?
400
I can be autotropic, eukaryotic, multicellular, have a cell wall. I belong to the kingdom
What is Plantae?
400
The levels of taxonomy from largest to smallest
What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
400
3 types of Natural Selection
What are directional, disruptive (diversifying), stabilizing?
400
Choose the species most closely related
1 & 3
6 & 7
8 & 1
5 & 6
What is 5&6
400
Body parts in different species that serve the same function but have different evolutionary origins and structures.
What are analogous structures?