Change over time

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Change over time

• EVOLUTION

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Preserved remains of plants and animals

• FOSSILS

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Preserved remains of plants and animals

• FOSSILS

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Scientist who proposed the theory of evolution by
natural selection

• CHARLES DARWIN

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A well supported testable explanation of
phenomena

• THEORY

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Members of a species compete for food, mates, and
living space

• STRUGGLE FOR EXISTANCE

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• Who is being selected for?
• THE MEDIUM / MIDDLE

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An INHERITED characteristic that increases an
organisms fitness

• ADAPTATION

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Ability of an organism to survive in its
environment

• FITNESS

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Organisms that are the best fit will survive and
reproduce successfully

• SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

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• What kind of
• trait is this?
• POLYGENIC

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Humans select for the best traits in organisms

• ARTIFICIAL SELECTION

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Nature selects for the traits that make the
organism more fit

• NATURAL SELECTION

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According to this concept, all organisms have
descended from a common ancestor

• COMMON DESCENT

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• In the geologic time scale---during what era did
  humans appear

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Structures that have the same structure but
different functions

• HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES

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The study of embryos of many vertebrates are very
similarthis suggests that vertebrates have
descended from a ______.

• COMMON ANCESTOR

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All of the genes that are available to a
population

• GENE POOL

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• Whose experiment is this?
• MILLER-UREY

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T / F Evolution has occurred if the relative
frequency of an allele changes over time

• TRUE

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When graphing polygenic traits the graph looks
like this

• BELL SHAPED CURVE

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Formation of a new species

• SPECIATION

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• What kind of selection is this?
• DIRECTIONAL SELECTION

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Two populations are separated by mountains,
rivers, or canyons

• GEOGRAPHICAL ISOLATION

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Two or more species reproduce at different times

• TEMPORAL ISOLATION

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• These two species change over time because they
  depend on each other.
• This is called ____.
• COEVOLUTION

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Determining the age of a fossil by comparing its
placement to other fossils in the record

• RELATIVE DATING

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The Earths early atmosphere was aerobic or
anaerobic?

• ANAEROBIC NO OXYGEN

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Unrelated species evolve similar characteristics

• CONVERGENT EVOLUTION

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Two species evolve in response to changes in each
other

• COEVOLUTION

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• This species inherited a characteristic to make
  it better fit to the environment.
• This is called an ______.
• ADAPTATION

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• These two species who are UNRELATED have evolved
  similar characteristics--- this is called ______.
• CONVERGENT EVOLUTION

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List the categories of classification in order
from broadest to most specific

• Kingdom
• Phylum
• Class
• Order
• Family
• Genus
• Species Most specific

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• Homo sapienWhat is the genus and what is the
  species?
• Homo---Genus
• Sapien---species

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• Which organism is more closely related to
  dinosaurs and birds?
• CROCODILES

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• Which woodpecker is more closely related to the
  hairy woodpecker?
• The red-bellied or the ladder-backed?
• LADDER-BACKED, THEY ARE IN THE SAME GENUS!!

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• What is the study of classification of living
  organisms?
• TAXONOMY

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