Vocab
Preserved remains, or traces of, ancient organisms.
What is a fossil?
Voyaged on the HMS Beagle observing different yet ecologically similar animals across the globe developing his own scientific theory about how organisms change over time.
Who is Charles Darwin?
What is evolution?
Organisms changing over time in response to a changing environment.
What were the three flightless birds Darwin saw?
What are ostrich, rhea, and emu?
All groups draw Mr. G's monkey on the white board. Best monkey gets the points!
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The process by which organisms that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully.
What is natural selection?
Suggested that organisms could change over time by selectively using or not using parts of their bodies, and they could pass on these changes to their offspring.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
What is adaptive radiation?
A single species evolves into several/many distinct species after adapting to a variety of niches.
The information bearing molecule common to all life.
What is DNA?
Munkey stole the points
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A form of reproductive isolation in which two populations are separated by geographic barriers leading to the formation of two distinct subspecies.
What is geographic isolation?
Proposed a hypothesis about how geological processes shape Earth noting how some rocks form from cooled lava and sediment forming layers through deposition.
Who is James Hutton?
What are three ways reproductive isolation can occur?
Behavioral, geographic, and temporal isolation
The three main ways genetic variation is produced.
What are sexual reproduction, mutations, and lateral gene transfer?
Munkey was here
no points for you
A pattern of evolution where long stable periods are interrupted by brief periods of rapid change.
What is punctuated equilibrium?
Proposed that the laws of nature were uniform over the course of time meaning that they function in the same way today as they did in the ancient past. He specifically applied this idea to geological processes.
Who is Charles Lyell?
What are the 5 conditions necessary to achieve Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in a population?
1. Infinitely large population
2. Completely random mating
3. No immigration or emigration
4. No genetic drift
5. No natural selection
Sharks, snakes, elephants, and parakeets are a part of this phylum.
What is phylum chordata?
Kind lords and ladies, Sir Munkey must regretfully inform you that there are no points to be had here.
Sir Munkey must also inform you that he behaves most like a jester or in the language of old, a troll.
Body parts that share a common function, but not an evolutionary history.
What is an analogous structure?
They conducted an experiment to test if organic compounds could be produced on primordial Earth by simulating the conditions.
Who are Stanley Miller and Harold Urey?
What is endosymbiotic theory?
a proposed theory explaining how organelles in eukaryotic cells formed from different kinds of cells merging in a symbiotic relationship.
What is Mr. G's favorite animal?
What is the tasseled wobbegong shark?
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