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AI CHAPTER 19 VOCAB
Evolution Chapter 19 Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| background extinction | extinction caused by the slow/steady process of natural selection |
| mass extinction | an event in which many organisms become extinct |
| gradualism | evolution occurs very slow and steadily |
| punctuated equilibrium | evolution occurs rapidly at times |
| adaptive radiation | a species evolves into several different forms during a short period of time |
| convergent evolution | animals that are unrelated evolve to look like one another...like dolphins and fish |
| coevolution | 2 organism evolve together as each other changes |
| endosymbiont theory | eukaryotic cells captured smaller prokaryotic cells, and now they live together |
| Miller and Urey | scientists who recreated the early conditions on the earth and produced organic molecules in the lab. |
| microspheres | tiny bubble made up of organic molecules that resembles a cell |
| 4.6 billion years | the age of the earth as determined by radioactive dating |