Diversity Of Life-2 Flashcards
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Characteristics of life
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- Cellular organization
- Reproduction
- Metabolism
- Homeostasis
- Heredity
- Response to stimuli
- Growth and development
- Adaptation through evolution
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Scale of life
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3
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Requirements of natural selection in Shaping life.
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Variation - Individuals in a population vary from one another.
Inheritance - Parents pass on their traits to their offspring genetically.
Selection - Some variants reproduce more than others.
Time - Successful variations accumulate over many generations.
4
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Draw the tree of life
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5
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What are the key features of the tree of life and endosymbiosis?
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6
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What does the phylogenetic tree represent?
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