Evolution Flashcards

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Evolution

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A process of biological change in which species accumulate differences from their ancestors as they adapt to different environments over time.

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Taxonomy

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It’s a system to classify and organize different types of species to be able to have an easy understanding of

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Domains of life

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Bacteria
Archaea (both prokaryotic)
Eukarya (kingdom plantae, kingdom fungi, kingdom animalia, and protists)

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How are the kingdoms distinguished?

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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

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Charles Darwin

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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”

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Natural selection

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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

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