Speciation Flashcards

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1
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What parts of animals do not decay

A

Bones

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2
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What else shows creatures have existed ( 3 )

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1/ traces, ie footprints
2/ burrows
3/ Absence of right conditions

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3
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Why cant the earliest creatures remnants be found

A

Lots of the living things were soft bodied

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4
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Why have many of the fossils be destroyed

A

geological activity

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5
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What can fossils show ( 3 )

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1/ How new species are formed
2/ how new organisms arise
3/ How some species may became extinct

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6
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Why is there uncertainty of how organisms came to be

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There is a lack of enough valid and reliable evidence

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7
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What are the reasons extinction occurs ( 6 )

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1/ New disease
2/ Environment change
3// New competitor
4/ Catastrophe
5/ New predator 
6/ Cyclical nature of speciation
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8
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what is the first step of speciation

A

species separated by barrier

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9
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What causes advantageous characteristics to be carried on

A

alleles

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10
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What is the definition of speciation

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The species have become too different to interbreed

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