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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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