mechanisms of evolution Flashcards

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process, biological population, inheritable characteristics, successive generations of the population, develops in a long period of time, adapt to the changes in their environment

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evolution

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sometimes called “theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics” or soft inheritance, holds that an organism experiencing such a modification can transmit such a character to its offspring. Founded by Jean Baptiste Lamarck

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Theory of Acquired Characteristics

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parts of the organism that is regularly used will undergo hypertrophy and will be developed

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theory of use and disuse

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changes in the environment can arise to new needs, required for species’ survival

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theory of need

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organisms adapt to its environment and survive. Charles Darwin

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Survival of the Fittest

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species has descended and changed overtime

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Descent with Modification

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process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change

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Natural Selection

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identification of desirable traits by humans to perpetuate it to future generations

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artificial selection

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introduction of genetic material from one population of a species to another

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gene flow

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the frequency of a trait changes by chance randomly

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genetic drift

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genes are damaged or changed that alter the dna sequence

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mutation

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theory on evolution of organisms

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theory of acquired characteristics, use and disuse, need, survival of the fittest, descent with modification, theory of evolution by natural selection, artificial selection

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mechanisms of evolution

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natural selection, artificial selection, gene flow, genetic drift, mutation

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