chapter 25 Flashcards
3 ways tetrapod skulls changed overtime
multiple lower jaw bones to one, one type of tooth to multiple, inner ear bones
sequence of key events in history
origin of Earth, prokaryotes, production of oxygen, eukaryotes, multicellular organism, animals, organisms with hard body parts, colonization of land
oxygen shot up rapidly to 1%-10% present level
oxygen revolution
what caused the oxygen revolution
cyanobacteria
the appearance of fossils resembling many animals groups and provides first evidence of predator-prey interactions
cambrian explosion
continents move overtime
continental drift
number of species rapidly become extinct worldwide
mass extinction
rapid period of evolutionary change where new species arise
adaptive radiation
what are the 2 ways living things can look different?
sequences(mutations) and regulation of developmental genes
control the rate and timing of body growth from fertilization to adult
developmental genes
1 type of developmental gene that determines where an organism’s features will develop
homeotic genes
1 type of developmental gene that determines where an organism’s features will develop in animals
Hox genes
changes in the form of an organism may be caused more often by changes in their sequence
gene regulation