5B Evolution Stuff

Question 1

theory of natural selection?

Answer 1

The most fittest survive?

Question 2

mutations?

Answer 2

A random change in DNA

Question 3

Fixity of Species?

Answer 3

The belief that animals can not change

Question 4

Uniformitarianism?

Answer 4

The belief that things happen at the same rate in the past that they do now

Question 5

Theory of acquired Characteristics?

Answer 5

The theory that animals can gain new traits and pass them on

Question 6

modern synthesis?

Answer 6

The combination of natural selection and mutations

Question 7

What is dating?

Answer 7

The process of finding how old rocks are

Question 8

Absolute dating

Answer 8

using radioactive isotopes in igneous rocks and using it as like a natural in a rock wall

Question 9

Relative Dating

Answer 9

The deeper rocks are the older they are

Question 10

Carbon 14 dating

Answer 10

carbon lives 100,00 year Most used

Question 11

Evolutionist believe that all organisms come from a…

Answer 11

Common ancestor

Question 12

Homologous structure

Answer 12

All animals look like they have similar bone structures

Question 13

Vestigial structure

Answer 13

A useless structure in an organism that evolutionist believe had a use before

Question 14

Embryology

Answer 14

Some organisms have similar stages while growing as embryos