Evolution Flashcards
Evolution
A process of biological change in which species accumulate differences from their ancestors as they adapt to different environments over time.
Taxonomy
It’s a system to classify and organize different types of species to be able to have an easy understanding of
Domains of life
Bacteria
Archaea (both prokaryotic)
Eukarya (kingdom plantae, kingdom fungi, kingdom animalia, and protists)
How are the kingdoms distinguished?
They are distinguished by their modes of nutrition:
Plants produce their own sugars and other food molecules by photosynthesis
Fungi absorb nutrients from their surroundings
Animals abstains food by eating and digesting other organisms
Charles Darwin
First person to give us and idea of evolution that stuck with us which he published on his book “on the origin of species by means of natural selection”
Natural selection
A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits