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| change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift |
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| the process by which forms of life having traits that better enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures, as predators, changes in climate, or competition for food or mates, will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers than others of their kind, thus ensuring the perpetuation of those favorable traits in succeeding generations. |
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| a process in the breeding of animals and in the cultivation of plants by which the breeder chooses to perpetuate only those forms having certain desirable inheritable characteristics. |
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| a special type of natural selection in which the sexes acquire distinct forms either because the members of one sex choose mates with particular features or because in the competition for mates among the members of one sex only those with certain traits succeed. |
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| He researched changes in species, and worked on the theory of evolution. In 1859 Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'. |
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| Lamarck talked about two main themes in his biological work. The first was that the environment gives rise to changes in animals. He cited examples of blindness in moles, the presence of teeth in mammals and the absence of teeth in birds as evidence of this principle. The second principle was that life was structured in an orderly manner and that many different parts of all bodies make it possible for the organic movements of animals. |
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| it is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species and is related to evolutionary biology. |
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| The study of the evolution of chemical processes among different biological classification |
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| is the branch of embryology that compares and contrasts embryos of different species. |
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| It is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time |
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| it is the transfer of alleles or genes from one population to another. |
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| it is the change in the frequency of a gene variant (allele) in a population due to random sampling. |
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| Overproduction of offspring |
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| If overproduction occurs most will not survive due to resources. |
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| It provides the genetic material for natural selection. Genetic variation is done by and through mutation. Variation Provides for better and more capable species. |
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| a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation. |
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| The book in which Darwin wrote about evolutionary,his research and origin of species.The foundation of evolutionary biology. |
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| When the population becomes extinct as numbers plummet |
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| The alteration in genetic material. |
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