Individuals with certain inherited traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than are individuals with other traits
What is Natural Selection
100
Appearance of new species
What is speciation
100
Before there was oxygen on earth it was considered this
What is Anaerobic bacteria
100
These are all members of the group that contain the specifies commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, apes, etc.
What is primates
200
In genetics, the principal that genes are inherited independently of one another
What is Independent assortment
200
___________ proposed that organisms change over time as a result of inheritance of acquired characteristics
What is Jean Lamarck
200
Occurence of large-scale changes in the characteristics of life
What is macroevolution
200
Life first came upon earth this long ago
What is around 3.8 years ago
200
This group consists of all modern and extinct Great Apes.
What is Hominins
300
The chromosomes line up in Homologous pairs in this stage of Meiosis.
What is Metaphase
300
Alleles of all genes in all individuals in a population
What is gene pool
300
Anything that prevents individuals of closely related species from interbreeding
What is Reproductive barrier
300
Theory that all continents had been joined in a single supercontinent
What is continental drift
300
Being able to digest milk as an adult is called what
What is lactace persistant
400
Charts of family histories which show the phenotypes and family relationships of individuals
What is pedigrees
400
You need these three things in order for Natural Selection to occur
What is variation, heritability and differential reproduction
400
A group of populations whose members have the potential to interbreed with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring
What is biological species
400
Study of the past and present distribution of organisms
What is biogeography
400
This body part allows primates to grasp and handle objects
What is opposable thumbs
500
2 differences between Mitosis and Meiosis
What is Mitosis ends with 2 daughter cells and line up individually during metaphase where as Meiosis ends with 4 daughter cells and line up in homologous pairs during metaphase
500
Change in the nucleotide sequence of DNA
What is a mutation
500
Initial block to gene flow is a geographic barrier that physically isolates the splinter population
What is allopatric speciation
500
In the past 400 years we have lost around ____ mammal species
What is 89
500
Many primates have opposable thumbs; what is this an example of