Evolution
Mechanisms of Evolution
Classification
Evidence for Evolution
Misc. Evolution
100
The term for when a species no longer exists.
What is extinction?
100
Traits of certain individuals are favored by the environment, making them more likely to survive and reproduce
What is Natural Selection?
100
The scientists who created the first classification system for living organisms.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
100
This type of evolution can show us the relative or absolute age of species through time and their transitional forms.
What is the fossil record?
100
This type of selection favors one extreme characteristic, shifting the distribution curve one way or another.
What is directional selection?
200
The father of Evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
The movement of genetic material from one population to another.
What is Gene Flow?
200
A diagram that shows the relatedness of species based on specific characteristics.
What is a cladogram?
200
Homologous, analogous, and vestigial structures are all an example of this type of evidence of evolution.
What is comparative anatomy?
200
This type of fossil is known to have existed for a short period of time and was widespread, helping scientists data other fossils in the record that are found near it.
What is an index fossil?
300
The process in which inherited characteristics within a population change over generations such that new species sometimes arise.
What is Evolution?
300
The ultimate source of all genetic variation.
What are mutations?
300
A tool to identify organisms based on a series of paired statements about their characteristics.
What is a dichotomous key?
300
Similarities in the DNA of organisms.
What is molecular homology?
300
This is necessary in order for speciation to occur.
What is reproductive isolation?
400
The scientist that theorized that individual organisms could evolve within their lifetime and pass on acquired traits.
Who is Lamarck?
400
When individuals choose who they mate with based off certain characteristics or behaviors.
What is Nonrandom Mating?
400
The two taxon used to scientifically name organisms.
What are genus and species?
400
Evidence of evolution based on similarities in developing embryos
What is comparative embryology?
400
This type of speciation occurs when two populations are still geographically near each other but they no longer interbreed.
What is sympatric speciation?
500
Isolation, mutation (variation), natural selection, and time result in this evolutionary change.
What is speciation?
500
The random rapid decrease in a population's size that shifts the frequency of alleles.
What is Genetic Drift?
500
The correct order of all the taxa in the Linnaean Classification system (from broad to specific)
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
500
These are the oldest fossils in this diagram
What are trilobites?
500
This type of genetic drift occurs when a population is suddenly wiped out, possibly from a natural disaster like a fire or tsunami.
What is the bottleneck effect?