Bio Test (Evolution) Flashcards
The person that reasoned that if the human population continued to grow unchecked, sooner or later there would be insufficient living space and food for everyone.
Thomas Malthus
The person that talked about natural selection and evolution through fossils and visiting the Galapagos Islands
Charles Darwin
The person that was one of the first people to propose species modification
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The person that said that the geologic forces have shaped Earth
James Hutton
A graph which shows the average being the most
Stabilizing graph
A graph which shows one extreme is favored and over time the opposite is favored. Ex: pepper moth
Directional Graph
A graph which shows the extremes of a population being favored
Disruptive graph
Study of species & ecosystems in geographic space
Biogeography
2 unrelated organisms look alike
convergent evolution
a boundary that seperates 1 population into 2 species
divergent evolution
the change in frequnecy of an existing gene
genetic drift
how a new kind of plant or animal species is created
speciation
structures you have but no longer use ex: wisdom teeth
vestigial
the different genes between species
variation
different structure same function
analogous
same structure different function
homologous
human intervention with animal environment
artificial selection
a well-supported testable explanation of phenomena that have occurred in the natural world
theory
change over time
evolution
survival of the fittest
natural selection
land barriers causing a population to separate ex: grand canyon
geographic isolation
using the carbon left in a plant or animal to tell the age
carbon dating
ability to survive and reproduce
fitness
when organisms disappear from the earth
extinction
total amount of genes in a population
gene pool
gene flow
movement of genes from one population to another
amino acid protein
cytochrome c
the farther the level is from the surface of the earth that the fossil is found in, the older the fossil
law of superposition
when two organisms work together and cause a symbiotic relationship
coevolution
when an abrupt change is made in a sequence of the generations of a specific species
punctuated equilibrium
