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Charles Darwin
Fossils
Organisms
Plants
Vocabulary
100
South America
Where is the place where Darwin made many observations?
100
Deserts
Where is an unlikely place to find fossils?
100
Analysis about an organism in which the dervied characters evolved
What is cladistic analysis?
100
Photosynthesis
What is the process used by plants that converts the suns energy?
100
A change in the gene pool of a population due to chance
What is genetic drift?
200
observed similar species to those found on the mainland, with traits suited to their environment
What kinds of birds Darwin found on the Galapagos Islands.
200
sedimentary rock
What is the place where most fossils are found?
200
Bacteria and Archaea
What is the kingdom previously used to group these two organisms?
200
Angiosperms
What are fruits and almost all vegetable crops?
200
the ability of an individual to contribute to the gene pool of the next generation
What is biological fitness?
300
Certain individuals will leave more offspring on average (their survival is due to the ___.)
What is possession of inherited adaptations that are well suited to the environment.
300
Cenozoic
What is Earth's most recent era?
300
King Philip Came Over For Good Soup!
What is the pneuonomic for kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?
300
Structure shaped like an umbrella
What is the sporophyte in liverworts?
300
The combined alleles of all the individuals that make up a population
What is the gene pool?
400
Observation of the finches of different species support the hypothesis that...
What are species that originated from a common ancestor?
400
Half-life
What is length of time required for half of a radioactive isotope in a sample to decay?
400
Prokaryotes
What is the three domain system that recognizes fundamental differences between two groups of ___?
400
Ovary
What is the specialized reproductive structure that evolved most recently?
400
Medecine that kills or slows the growth of bacteria
What is an antibiotic?
500
Evolution is based on the idea(s) of variation and natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
500
Mass extinctions encouraged the rapid evolution of the surviving species because....
It provided new opportunities for surviving species?
500
Dinosaurs
What are the dominant land animals during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods?
500
the gametes do not require water for fertilization
What are seed-bearing plants?
500
Group of plants that produces "naked" seeds
What is a gymnosperm?