Early Ideas
The process of biological change
What is Evolution
Difference in physical traits
What is Variation
Humans change a species by breeding it for certain traits
What is Artificial Selection
The study of the distribution of organisms around the world
What is Biogeography
A group of organisms so similar to one another that they can reproduce and have fertile offspring.
What is species
A feature that allows an organism to better survive
What is Adaptation
The ability of a genetic trait to be passed down from one generation to the next.
What is Heritability
Different functions, similar structures
What are Homologous Structures
Traces of organisms that existed in the past
What are Fossils
The geographical source of Darwin’s discoveries that helped him write the book: On The Origin of Species
What are the Galapagos Islands
A mechanism by which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptations produce more offspring on average than other organisms
What is Natural Selection
Different structures, similar functions
What are Analogous Structures
Wrote the book on Evolution (literally), Sailed on the HMS Beagle to the Galapagos Islands
Who is Charles Darwin
What is a cladogram
All the individuals of a species that live in an area
What is a population
Remnants of once useful structures that now serve no purpose in an organism
What are vistigial structures
The geographical source of Darwin’s discoveries that helped him write the book: On The Origin of Species
What are the Galapagos Islands
The name for the type of bird that Darwin studied on the Galapagos Islands
What is the Finch
A measure of the ability to survive and produce offspring
What is Fitness
A term for all of these: Fossils, Geography, Embryology, Comparative Anatomy, DNA Analysis
What are Evidences of evolution