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Science Chapter 6
Life science chapter 6 section one ideas about evolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a speices? | A speices is a group of organisims that share simular charictictics and can. reproduce among themselvs to produce fertile ofspring |
| What is evolution? | Evolution is the way a speices has changed to adapt to the enviorment around temselvs. |
| What was jean Baptiste de lamarck's theory of evolution? | His theory was he thought that the charistics developed from the parents lifetime were passed on to the parent organisims ofspring. |
| Jean's theory correct? | no, Large muscles that are developed in the parent's lifetime are not passed to the ofspring so his theory was inncorrect. |
| Aboard what vesel did Dawrwin sail on from england? | Dawrin saild on the beagle to collect plant and animal life in south amarica and his voyage reached as far out to the Galapagos islands. |
| What was the diffrance between the 13 speices of finches that Darwin found on the Galapagos islands and how does this proove his theory correct? | The diffrences were in body size, beak shape, and eating habbits. this prooved his theory correct because it showed how the speices had evolved to adapt to their habatat. |
| What does natural selection mean? | It means that the speices that is the best suited to the enviorment willsurvive. |
| What is variation? | It is what makes a speciman of a certain speices diffrent from the others of the same speices. |
| What is adaptation? | Adaptation any variation of any kind that mkes that animal better suited for the enviorment that it is living in. |
| What is Gradulisim? | Gradulisim is the idea that through a seiries of mutations and variations that eventually a new speices is created and a new branch is added to the tree. |
| What is puncuated equlibriam? | puncuated equlibriam is a model that through a few genarations of mutations and variations a new speices. |
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