Natural Selection
Small changes over a short amount of time.
What is Microevolution?
Biochemistry uses this as evidence for evolution.
What is DNA and proteins?
This is the process of converting a complex ecosystem into simplified systems such as urban areas or farmland.
These limiting factors occurs regardless of the size of the population.
What are Density-Independent Factors?
This is the stage in the carbon cycle that occurs in plants and removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
This type of selection favors two extremes over an intermediate phenotype
What is disruptive selection?
Paleontology relies on this evidence for evolution.
What is the fossil record?
This occurs when a barrier is formed in an ecosystem that prevents an organism from accessing entire home range.
This is when there are many different types of species in an area.
What is a species richness?
This is the stage in the carbon cycle that is done by all living organisms and puts carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
What is cellular respiration?
This type of selection occurs when traits that are favored are selected for, rather than the most "fit" traits"
What is artificial selection?
Embryology relies on this evidence for evolution.
What is similar embryo structures during early development?
This occurs when there is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which causes warmer temperatures.
This is the maximum number of species that an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity?
This is the stage in the carbon cycle in which dead/decaying organisms are broken down to release carbon into the earth.
This occurs when there is a random event that changes the frequency of alleles in a population over time.
What is genetic drift?
The field of anatomy uses these as evidence for evolution because many animals have similar structures with similar function.
What are homologous structures?
These are negative effects that humans cause in ecosystems.
This is when all the species in an area are represented equally.
What is relative abundance?
This is the stage in the carbon cycle that occurs when fossil fuels are burned to release carbon into the atmosphere.
This principle explains genetic equilibrium; when there are no changes of allele frequency in a population.
What is the Hardy-Weinberg principle/equilibrium?
The field of anatomy uses these as evidence for evolution because they are remnants of structures that once had important functions in ancestors of the species.
What are vestigial structures?
This occurs when habitats are assisted the recovery of an ecosystem that has been damaged or destroyed.
This is described as all living things living in an area and the nonliving things around it.
What is an ecosystem?
This describes the importance of the carbon cycle.