Evolution Flashcards

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believed in 2 words: the real worlds and illusionary world

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Plato

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believed that all living organisms could be arranged in a “scale of nature” of GREATE CHAIN OF BEING

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Aristotle

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Darwin noticed similarities between extinct and extant organism

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Fossils

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Darwin made observation regarding the resemblance of species in South America

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Resemblance

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Darwin’s ideas were published in the book ________ which remains famous and relevant until today

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On the Origin of Species

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all species have common ancestry

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Common Descent

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refers to the process by which organisms change and evolve to form a distinct new species

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Speciation

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the change that happens to species does so over very long periods of time

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Gradualism

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organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce

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Natural Selection

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genetic explains the mechanism for the coding of traits

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Mechanism

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genetics provides a basis for the inheritance of traits

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Inheritance

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genetics explains how the traits of populations change over time

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Changes

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refers to both the mechanism of adjusting to environmental changes and features that organisms have or use to survive in their habitats

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Adaptation

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refers to the changes that occur during a species evolutionary history

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Phylogenetic Change

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the field that studies the comparisons between the structure of organism to establish their evolutionary relationship

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Comparative Anatomy

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is branch of biology that deals with the distribution of species across the world

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Biogeography

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the process of organizing organisms based on taxonomic hierarchy involves classifying them into multiple levels of the organization

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

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involves naming and classifying organisms based on characteristic and relatedness

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Taxonomy

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is a diagram that shows relationship between organism based on characteristics

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Cladogram

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may also be based on physical characteristics but more commonly use genetic data to show the relationship between organism

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Phylogenetic Tree

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are structure in organism that are similar in terms of structure but have different functions

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Homologous Structure

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are structure that have similar functions even though they have evolved independently between different organism

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Analogous Structure

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are structures that have no function in the organism

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Vestigial Structure