A human vs. nature mechanism for selection where humans deliberately choose the best looking flowers and tamest wolves for breeding purposes; this preserves the desired genes so to be passed on from generation to generation from organism to organism.
What is Artificial Selection *
100
When organisms have something to gain or loose from one another other respectively; in a relationship where each side has something to offer the other / a relationship where one side benefits from the other.
What is Co-Evolution *
100
A scientists who traveled to the Galapagos islands in the 18th century and developed the first mechanism for explaining evolutionary change.
Who is Charles Darwin *
100
The evidence of plant or an animal existence from earlier geological periods; usually found in sedimentary rock.
What is A Fossil *
100
The field of science which deals with; nomenclature, identification, and classification of organisms.
What is Taxonomy *
200
The process of natural selection where organisms set out to find desirable characteristics in a mate of the same species; usually an advantageous process for reproduction.
What is Sexual Selection *
200
The reproductive capacity of individuals in a population; is the likelihood of passing on traits to future generations.
What is Fitness *
200
A historical scientist of the late 17th century who developed the evolutionary theory of natural tendency toward perfection; organisms evolve to become more more complex organisms overtime.
Who is Jean Lamarck *
200
The process when a species, not a population, is in the process of or is completely dying off.
What is Extinction *
200
A technique for identifying the age of objects by measuring the amount of carbon-14.
What is Radioactive Carbon Dating *
300
Alterations that occur during cell division or DNA replication that can potentially change characteristics of a species if many of these occur in a population.
What is A Mutation *
300
In Natural Selection, this is a feature that enables variation to thrive or decline in populations if it is present.
What is Selection Pressure *
300
The first scientist of the early 17th century who used the study of bone structure to a develop a system of comparative anatomy; the first to question if all living organisms shared the same common ancestor.
Who is George Buffon *
300
The non random process of new and distinct individuals forming through the course of evolution.
What is Speciation *
300
The study of Historic or Pre-Historic objects, culture, monuments, exc.
What is Archaeology *
400
A non random selection process where the most fit organisms are likely to pass on their genetic information to their offspring; the environment is the selecting agent.
What is Natural Selection *
400
Explanations in nature attributed to the super natural, creator, or designer.
What is Natural Theology *
400
The first scientist of the late 17th century who debated the preexisting theory that fossils were remains of present life forms; he was the first scientists coin the term 'extinct organism'.
Who is Georges Cuvier *
400
The process that allows migration of genes and gene transfer between populations; the result is genetic variation.
What is Gene Flow *
400
A branch of science that examines Pre-existing life from former geologic periods; scientists analyze remains of fossils.
What is Paleontology *
500
When there is an increase or decrease in genetic frequency in a population due to a random event; the result is a change in the total number of genes in a given population.
What is Genetic Drift *
500
A characteristic of a population that results from natural selection; it changes over time but is not fixed.
What is Adaptation *
500
A scientist who developed a binomial nomenclature system for naming and classifying organisms based upon genus and species; he developed classifications more involved systematically.
Who is Carl Linnaeus *
500
A word to describe change or difference in the physical or behavioral characteristics in a species; usually a result of change.
What is Variation *
500
This physical characteristic lead to questioning the natural world; the ability to analyze and detect change through this mechanism.