Vocabulary
A term that means "without oxygen"
What is anaerobic?
Often called "the father of Evolution"
Who is Charles Darwin?
Hair color is an example of a _______inheritable trait.
What is a neutral inheritable trait?
The first living cell to emerge.
What are prokaryotes?
A type of cell that contains DNA in the nucleus
What is a Eukaryotic cell?
Geologists that developed a type of thinking called uniformitarianism.
Who are Lyell and Hutton?
A mutation in this code is necessary for producing variation among populations.
What is the genetic code (DNA)?
This type of bacteria started to create oxygen and then created a massive die off of prokaryotic cells. The only survivors were the cells that adapted a different metabolic pathway called cellular respiration.
What are cyanobacteria?
A type of cell that produces ATP (energy)
What is Mitochondria?
These two people developed their theories of evolution parallel to each other.
This experiment turned speculation into testable science.
What was Miller-Urey experiment?
A theory that proposes that a large prokaryotic cell engulfs smaller chloroplasts and mitochondria.
This person thought that if the human population grew unchecked, there wouldn't be enough food and living space for everyone.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
What is common ancestry?
This geological formation showed when photosynthetic organisms first evolved.
What are banded iron formations?
Fitness is AKA
What is differential reproductive success?
This person thought that organisms could acquire a trait during their lifetime and pass it on to their offspring.
Who is Lamarck?
3 conditions for natural selection to occur.
What are the struggle for existence, variation and adaptation, and survival of the fittest?
This theory explains the evolution of Eukaryotic cells.
What is the endosymbiotic theory?