Evolution Flashcards

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Stage 1 of Natural Selection

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There needs to be a population with variety

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Stage 2 of Natural Selection

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More are born than survive to reproduce

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Stage 3 of Natural Selection

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Survival is NOT RANDOM! They need to have advantageous trait.

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Stage 4 of Natural Selection

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Passing of advantageous trait

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What is Natural Selection

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The process of which organisms better adapt to their environment

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What is evolution

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Evolution is a generation to generation change in proportion of different inherited genes.

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Microevolution

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Microevolution is an evolution on the smallest scale. For example the size of sparrows in North America is larger than South

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Lamarck’s theory?

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Inheritance of acquired characteristics through use and disuse

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Darwin

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Natural selection

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Survival of the fitness

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Organisms must be able to survive and reproduce. If you can’t reproduce you dead

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What are homologous traits?

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Traits with similar anatomy due to common evolutionary origin

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Analogous

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These structures have similar functions but not similar anatomical structure

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Convergent Evolution

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The process in which unrelated organisms from similar environment have similar adaptations

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Vestigial structures

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Vestigial structures are structures which have reduced function

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