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| change in the genetic makeup of a population of species over time |
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| Who believed that evolution occured through the use and disuse of physical features (long neck giraffes and short nec giraffes) |
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| Who was the British naturalist who is responsible for originationg the theory of evolution? |
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| What islands did Charles Darwin sail to? |
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| What was the name of Charles Darwin's ship? |
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| What book did Charles Darwin write? |
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| What was proposed by Charles Darwin? |
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| What happens to organisms with favorable traits? |
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| they are able to reproduce and pass their traits on to their offsprings, who then reproduce |
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| What happens to organisms without favorable traits? |
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| they are likely to die out before reproducing |
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What is it called when things are similar because they envolved in similar environment (different structure; same funtion)?
Ex: wings of a butterfly and wings of a bird |
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What has the same structure, but different function?
Ex: bat wing bones compared to the bones in the human hand |
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What is a structure that has been reduced in size and has lost its importance?
Ex: appendix and tail bone in humans |
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| What is a diagram that shows the evolutionary relationship between organisms |
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| What is the attempt to create a hypothetical evolutionary tree called a cladiogram? |
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| What is the ceasing of the existence of an organism? |
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| What shows the evolutions of an organism over millions of years? |
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| Would organisms in lower rock layers be older or newer than organisms near the top? |
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| What is it called when unrelated species develop similar characteristics |
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| What animals (mammal and fish) share similar characteristics that suit their common environment? |
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| What animals share similar characteristics that suit their common environment? |
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| flying squirrel (North America) and flying marsupial (Australia) |
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| What is it called when many species develop from a common ancestor, but the different species adapt to their particular environment? |
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| How are finches on Galapagos Island different? |
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| they have different beak shapes |
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| What are structural and functional changes that make organism better suited to their environment? |
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| What is the science of classification? |
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| What does it mean to place objects into group based on certain similarities? |
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| Who developed the first widely accepted systems of biological classification that had two groups? |
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| What were the two groups that made up Aristotle's biological classification? |
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| How did Aristotle classify plants? |
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| by size (herbs, shrubs, and trees) |
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| How did Aristotle classify animals? |
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| by habitat (land, air, or water) |
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| Who developed the current system for classifying organisms? |
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| Who came up with Binomial Nomenclature? |
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| Who was the Father of Modern Technology? |
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| What is a two word latin name that is universally accepted and is considered to be the scientific name? |
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| What are the 7 Taxonomic Categories? |
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| Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species |
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| What is each taxonomic category defined by? |
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| What are the current 6 kingdoms? |
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archebacteria*, eubacteria*, Protista, fungi, plantae, Animalia
*prokaryotic |
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| What includes both eubacteria and archeobacteria (all prokaryotic)? |
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| What does Binomial Nomenclature help to avoid? |
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| regional differences in common names |
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