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Evolution Quiz #1
Study notes for first quiz about evolution
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Biology
11th Grade
11/25/2010

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Extinction
Definition
No longer exists
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Adaption
Definition
Process of adjusting to something (environment)
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Mimicry
Definition
Imitative behaviour
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Variation
Definition
The act of changing caused by random assortment, mutation
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Mutation
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Any permanent change in genetic material of an organism
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Selective Advantage
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A genetic advantage that improves an organisms chance of surviving
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Natural selection
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Process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
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Fitness
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Good physical condition
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Physiological adaption
Definition
Hibernation , bears go to sleep for months
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Artificial selection
Definition
Elimination of unwanted genes
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Behavioural adaption
Definition
Birds migrate south during winter
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Structural adaption
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Species
Definition
Are of the same if they can produce fertile offsprings
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Organisms face:
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Severe weather, diseasea, competition for food, space and mates
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Ex of an artificial selection
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A farmer plants only the tall corns, eventallly all corn will be tall
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George Louis-Leclerc
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Observed similarities between apes and humans and thought we have common ancestors, suggested we change over time
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Georges Cuvierb
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Studied fossils, came up with catastraphism natural disasters are responsible for species in an area
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