Evolution and Classification of Life Flashcards
Who published Natural Selection Theory?
Charles Darwin
Traits advantageous to species is more common
Natural Selection
When resources increase arithmetically and population increases geometrically
Overproduction
Competition for resources
struggle for life
Genetic recombination or mutation
Variation
Adaptable characteristics determine survival
Survival of the fittest
Adaptive characteristics are passed on
Heredity
What are the evidences of evolution?
Fossil records, embryology, homologous and analogous structures, vestigial structures
When did the earliest cells appear?
3.5 billion years ago (Kingdom Monera)
The first to utilize sunlight and photosynthesis to capture energy
Cyanobacteria
What does Endosymbiotic theory state?
That mitochondria and chloroplast used to be separate cells
Who classified living organisms into Animals and Plants?
Aristotle
He introduced binomial nomenclature (genus and species)
Carl Von Linné
From most inclusive to most exclusive, what are the levels of classification of organisms?
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Other taxonomic ranks greater than Kingdom?
Domain or Empire
