Evolution Flashcards

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Branch of biology that deals with the study of the history of life forms and of the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth.

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Evolutionary bio

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The slow gradual change in organisms over time

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  • Evolution –
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After natural catastrophes, such as great floods and tectonic earthquakes which resulted to extinction of plants and animals, God created new living organisms with improved characteristics.

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Theory of Catastrophi

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–Azoologist, paleontologist, and an advocate of creationism.

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GeorgeCuvier

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• States that organisms evolved in response to the
change in their environment.

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Lamarckism Theory

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Lamarckism Theory is also

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Theory of Acquired traits

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Lamarckism Theory
• By

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Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

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Lamarckian theory is summarized into 3 ideas

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• Principle of Need
• Principle of Use and Disuse – c

• Principle Of Inheritance Of Acquired trait

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9
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– change due to adaptation

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Principle of Need

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10
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– change through selective use or disuse of
organs; traits are lost or acquired

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Principle of Use and Disuse

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–acquired or lost trait is then passed to the offspring

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• Principle Of Inheritance Of Acquired traits

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12
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Individual whose traits most fit to
environment will be more likely to live and
reproduce.
• It is the nature that selects the survivor
(Survival of the fittest)

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Theory of Natural Selection

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Theory of Natural Selection who

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Charles Darwin

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3 Animals Darwin Studied:

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Finch, Tortoise, and Iguana

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15
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developed theory of natural selection similar to Darwin.

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Alfred Wallace

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16
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occurs through geographic isolation

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Allopatric speciation

17
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occurs through reproductive isolation

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Sympatricspeciation

18
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If the environment changes, natural selection may result to
adaptation and may give rise to new species

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SPECIATION :

19
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remain of organisms preserved in a sedimentary rock.

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Fossil

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Similar structure/ Different function

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HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURE

21
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Different structure/ Same function

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ANALOGOUS

22
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earliest development stage of an organism

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Embryo

23
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Similarities in embryo suggest that

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Similarities in embryo suggest that all vertebrates are related.

24
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study of organisms’ distribution

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Biogeography

25
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existence of different varieties within a species.

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mainland.
- Variation - refers to

26
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Living things consists of same biomolecules such as DNA, ATP, amino acids, and enzymes.

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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY genitics

27
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Organisms that are closely related have more DNA and proteins in common than those
that are more distantly related.

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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY genetic

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Evolution is a ? occurring in a ? of organism over ?

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Evolution is a genetic change occurring in a population of organism over many generation

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Mating is selective and not random

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Nonrandom mating

30
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Any change in genetic sequence that causes change in traits of an organism and may be inherited by offspring.

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Mutation –

31
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the movement of genes from one population to another.

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Gene Flow -

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moving out

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Immigration:

33
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Moving in
:

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E migration

34
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organism with traits most fit to environment will survive, live, and reproduce.

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Natural Selection –

35
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refers to changes in the gene pool (all genes in population) fr

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Genetic drift –