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1
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Certain species who are hidden because appearance matches enviroment

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Crypsis

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2
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Variation must exist among a individuals in a population

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Genetic Variation

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3
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Different survival and/or reproduction with respect to characteristics of individuals with a population

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Selection

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4
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A process of genetic change of a population owing to natural selection, whereby the average state of a character becomes improved

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Adaption

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5
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Changes from one generation to the next

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Allele frequencies

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6
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generation one of allele frequency

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0.5

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7
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generation two of allele frequency

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0.6

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8
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when a population experiences a dramatic decline in numbers

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population bottleneck

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9
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When did the Big Bang happen?

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14 Billion years ago

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10
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How did was the Galaxy created?

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A collapse cloud of “dust” and gas

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11
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When did our solar system form?

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4.6 Billion years ago

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12
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Similar to mounds created by cyanobacteria

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stromatolites

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13
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How long did the Pre-Cambrian era span?

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3.8 BYA- 570 MYA

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14
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What happened in the Archean Era?

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  • Diversion of Prokaryotes
  • photosynthesis generates oxygen
  • generation of aerobic respiration
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15
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What was the Cambrian Explosion?

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-Marine animals diversify

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16
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Also know as a hagfish, lacked a vertebrae but had notochord. Also is our lineage

A

Agnathan

17
Q

Origin of the jawed fish; earliest terrestial plants and anthropods

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Silurian

18
Q

Diversification of bony fish. Origin of ammonoids, insects,amphibians, ferns, seed plants.

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Devonian

19
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  • Godwanaland form.

- extensive forest of vascular plants,especially lycopsids

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Carboniferous

20
Q
  • continents aggregated into Pangea
  • Glaciations
  • Low sea levels
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Permian

21
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Contain Triassic, Jurrasic, and Cretaceous period

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Mesozoic Era

22
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  • First mammals
  • diversification of “reptiles”
  • first dinosaurs
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Triassic

23
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Cone bearing plants

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Gymnosperms