Evolution Of Species Flashcards

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What are Homologous structures?

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Similar structure, different function and come from an ancestor

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What are Analogous structures?

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Different species with Different structures but similar functions

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What is Evolution change

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The change of genes in a population overtime

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What does natural selection act on?

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It acts on variation, it does not create it

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What does natural selection result in the species?

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Becoming better adapted to their environment

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Natural selection can do what?

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Cause mutation over a period of time that can lead to a new species

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Evolution change means?

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The change of genes in a population overtime

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Are mutations always helpful?

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They usually are helpful because they help us adapt to our environment

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Where do mutations come from?

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Radiation, Chemicals

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Adaptation is the ability to?

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Change and adapt to changed in their environment

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What are the limiting factors

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Food
Water
Shelter

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Stimuli

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Anything that causes a response

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Autotrophs

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Organisms that can make their own nutrients

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Heterotrophs

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Organisms that cannot make their own nutrients

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Symbiosis

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Any type of interaction between two different species

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Mutilim

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When 2 organisms benefit each other

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Parasitiom

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One benefits and the other one gets harmed (ex, ticks )

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Commensalism

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Between organisms that don’t harm the other ( sharks and remora fish)

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Saprophytic (decomposers)

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Feed on the dead and decaying matter

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Taxonomy

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Science of identity and classifying all organisms

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Phylogeny

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The study of the evolutionary relationships between and among species

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Prokaryote

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Organisms that have no nuclear or any other membrane

DNA is found in cytoplasm

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Eukaryote

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A cell that has a nucleus that includes the DNA inside, they are more complex them prokaryotic cells

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Reproductive isolation

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Something that prevents 2 populations from interbreeding when they live in the same region

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Geographic isolation

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When populations are separated by geographic barriers

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Temporal isolation

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Two populations reproduce at different times

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Speciation

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Is a process. Can happen because of natural selection from a heritable traits overtime

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What are the 3 domains of life and what are there characteristics

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Bacteria: single celled, prokaryotic, vital in cycling nutrients, gets energy by photosynthesis and reproduce asexually

Archaea: single celled, prokaryotic, live in soils, oceans, human colon and extreme environments like salty,acidic or high temperatures they also reproduce asexually by splitting

Eukarya: are organisms that contain that a nucleus, protists, animals, plants and fungi

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What are the the things under Eukarya and explain there characteristics

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Protists: unicellular, eukaryotic organisms they get energy form dunglihby and can reproduire sexually or asexually examples are Omeaba, algae etc

Plants:multicellular,eukaryotic, get energy from photosynthesis which accours in the chloroplast. the cell walls are made out of cellulous, can reproduce sexually or asexually examples of plants flowering plants etc

Fungi: multicellular, Eukaryotic, cell wall made of chitin, essential in decomposition, often form symbiotic relations with other organisms, asexual or sexual reproduction, important in wine making examples can be mushrooms, mold or yeast

Animalia: multicellular, hetrophic, Asexual or sexual reproduction,contain protons collagen, invertebrates for 97% of species
Examples are worms, jellyfish birds,insects amphibians etc