Basic Terms
A physical or behavioral characteristic of an organism
What is a trait?
Comparative anatomy
A term that means who can survive the longest instead of which organism is the biggest and strongest
What is survival of the fittest?
The science of classifying organisms
What is taxonomy?
A tree that is based on evidence created for a group of organisms. It shows how closely related they are.
What is a phylogenetic tree?
The person that started the hype around evolution and natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin or Alfred Wallace?
The 3 factors that must be present in natural selection
How many species are known?
More than 1.8 x 10^6 !
Small scale changes that affect just one for a few genes and happen over shorter time frames
What is microevolution?
What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?
What is a genotype is the actually genetic component while a phenotype is the outward expression of the gene.
Using structures of molecules to develop theories on evolution
What is a new generation of organisms that are more likely to survive in the environment and reproduce?
Other answers may be correct
What is the difference between gradualism and punctuated equilibrium?
Gradualism: selections and variations that happens over a long period of time. Hard to notice over a short period of time.
Punctuated equilibrium: changes that happen in sections(spurts). A section of very little changes then could be one or a few large changes.
What is Macroevolution?
There are lines of evidence for evolution that exist which is called?
What is evidence for evolution?
When the geographical location of organism follows patterns that are explained by evolution.
What is biogeography?
What is the size of the cows?
Developed by Carolus Linnaeus, this system is used to classify organisms between a taxa range from kingdom to species.
What is Linnaean system of classification?
This provides a timeline of when organisms lived in fossils. Layers on the top are newer and the bottom being older.
Factors of this include: environment, predation, food source, sickness
What is competition/pressure?
Observing small scale evolution in organisms that have short life spans
What is direct observation?
What are factors that might contribute to a change in gene frequency?
What is mutation, natural selection, migration and a random genetic drift?
What are the 5 kingdoms?
Physical similarities that occur between two organisms, but they evolved independently. This is because the organisms lived in similar environments.
What is analogous features?