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Theory of Evolution Vocab

Evidence of Evolution Misc.

Macro-Evolution

Classification

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He traveled to the Galapagos Islands on the HMS Beagle and observed similar species suited to

their particular environment.

A 100

Who is Charles Darwin?

A 100

A 200

a diagram of evolutionary relationships

A 200

What is a Cladogram?

He proposed that giraffes got their long necks from

stretching them.

(the idea of use and disuse)

A 300

Who is Lamarck?

A 300

A 400

Which are more closely related: roundworms and annelids (earthworms) or

arthropods and annelids?

A 400

Who are the Annelids and Anthropods?

Process by which individuals better suited to their environment can survive and reproduce

most successfully.

A 500

What is Natural Selection or

Survival of the Fittest?

A 500

B 100

A long, slow change in organisms over

long periods of time.

B 100

What is Evolution?

B 200

Any inherited trait or characteristic that

increases an organism’s chances

for survival.

B 200

What is adaptation?What is Adaptation?

B 300

A sudden change in the sequence of DNA

B 300

What is a Mutation?

B 400

If individuals at one end of the bell curve have higher fitness

Example: Giraffe neck length

B 400

What is Directional Selection?

B 500

If individuals at both ends of the curve have higher fitness than

those in the middle

What is Disruptive Selection?

B 500

C 100

Preserved or mineralized remains of organisms usually found in sedimentary

rock.

What are Fossils?

C 100

Structures that have similar embryological origin and

structure but are adapted for different purposes

(Example: Human arm/Bat wing)

C 200

What are Homologous Structures?

C 200

C 300

•Fossil Records•Geographical Distribution

•Homologous Structures•Vestigial Organs•Similarities in Embryology

C 300

What isEvidence of Evolution?

DAILY DOUBLE

C 400

DAILY DOUBLE

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Appendix in Humans

Leg Bones in Whales

C 400

What are examples of Vestigial Structures?

C 400

C 500

The early stages of development in organisms in which there are many

similarities among different species.

C 500

What is Embryology?

This may happen if a species lacks the

variations necessary to adapt to a changing

environment.

D 100

What is Die and Become Extinct?

D 100

D 200

If individuals near the center of the bell curve have higher fitness

D 200

What is Stabilizing Selection?

Two populations are separated by geographic barriers such as rivers,

mountains, or other bodies of water.

D 300

What is Geographic Distribution?

D 300

D 400

When you take an antibiotic, there is a fight between the effect of the drug and your immune system. Therefore, the

longer the bacteria survives, the likelier it is

that it will become 

D 400

What is Resistance? (Antibiotic)

This historical event in England caused tree trunks and

buildings to blacken with soot allowing for birds and other predators to hunt the light-colored moths more easily.

D 500

What is The Industrial Revolution?

D 500

A Swedish botanist that developed a two-word naming

system(Science of Taxonomy)

E 100

Who is Linnaeus?

E 100

E 200

The broadest, largest category of organisms

with the fewest of traits in common

What is Kingdom?

E 200

E 300

The most specific level of classification in which

organisms have the most traits in common

A Genus is composed of a number of these

What is Species?

E 300

E 400

The 2-word scientific naming of an organism

What is Binomial

Nomenclature?

E 400

E 500

The two levels of classification used to name an organism

What is Genus and Species?

E 500

All the individuals of a species that live

together in one area. (Example: Alligators

in the Florida Everglades)

F 100

What is a Population?

F 100

F 200

Differences such as fur color shape of teeth

beak sizes shapes in shells

F 200

What is Variation?

A tool used by scientists to identify

organisms

F 300

F 300

What is a Dichotomous Key?

F 400

The two main sources of genetic variation

F 400

What is gene shuffling and mutations?

F 500

This classification system is based on

evolutionary descent or phylogeny.

What is Evolutionary

Classification?

F 500

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What scientists believe might explain why many bones of

fossil vertebrates are similar to those in living vertebrates.

What is a Common Ancestor?

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