evolution factors

Question 1

what is LUCA?

Answer 1

last common ancestor on earth that lived around 4 billion years ago

Question 2

what causes evolution

Answer 2

passage through gentics between generations that causesdifferent individuals to be able to survive differently in different conditions

Question 3

what is a mechanism for evolution that darwin suggested?

Answer 3

natural selection

Question 4

what is the process of natural selection

Answer 4

species adapt and change over time in response to their environment it is inevitable.

Question 5

what is required for natural selection (4 things)

Answer 5

variation, inheritance, selection, time

Question 6

what is a phylogenetic tree

Answer 6

shows shared characteristics and can show family trees through the shared genetics. you can even build one of all different organisms.
the characteristics can be physical or sequence information from biological molecules

Question 7

what is endosymbiosis?

Answer 7

the two key organelles in eukaryotes are derived from bacteria
mitochondria from proteobacteria and chloroplasts from cyanobacteria

Question 8

what are the 3 domains of life on earth

Answer 8

bacteria
archaea
eukaryotes