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Evolution
Everything about evolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Evolution | Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics |
| Species | group of organisms |
| gene | heredity of a living organism |
| "Survival of the fittest" | The most Fittest(Strongest) will survive to live on |
| Evolution existence in refine existing adaptations | The same set of bones can form the fin of a fish, the wing of a bird, the foreleg and hoof of a horse, or the arm and hand of a human--same bones, different sizes. Source(s): |
| Embryology | Study of the embryos of different species |
| Fossil record | history of life as documented by fossils |
| Basilosaurus | Was one of the first of the dinoland kingdom to build a adaptation to live under water |
| Geographical distribution | the natural arrangements of animals and plants in particular regions or districts. See under Distribution. |
| Homologous Structures | derived from a common ancestor or same evolutionary or developmental origin |
| vestigial structures | Vestigiality describes homologous characters of organisms that have seemingly lost all or most of their original function in a species... |
| Embryological Evidence | Through Similarities in Development in a species embryo |
| DNA / Molecular Evidence | Similarities in dna Structure |
| Formation of Fossils | Preservation through sediment |
| Geological Time Scale | The period of time covering the physical formation and development of Earth |
| Relative Dating of Fossils | Same Fossils are from the same time period |
| RadioMetric Dating | A method of dating geological specimens by determining the proportions of particular radioactive isotopes present in a sample. |
| Continental Drift | The Movement of the earths crust inside the earth related to the moving of the contents on the outer layer of earth. |
| Georges Buffons Ideas | Trying to determine the origin of species |
| Adaptation | The process of becoming more related to the environment that you are living in |
| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck | hypothesis that physiological changes acquired over the life of an organism (such as the enlargement of a muscle through repeated use) may be transmitted to offspring |
| Darwin's Observations | The Island inhabitants evolved differently than the inhabitants of the coast. |
| Charles Lyell | uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by the same processes still in operation today |
| Thomas Malthus | That the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence, That population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and, That the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept |
| Descendants With modifications | A species offspring will have the same modifications developed by the parents |
| Natural Selection | The Picking of the Strongest to survive and live pass on the strength to evolve into a more better species. |
| Pop. Num/Variations | Depends |
| Artificial Selection | Artificial selection (or selective breeding) describes intentional breeding for certain traits, or combination of traits. .... |
| Pesticides and Natural Selection | They Grow a resistance to whatever treatment that was being used |
| Growth in the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics | The bacteria left became stronger |
| Gene pool | The stock of different genes in an interbreeding population. |
| process of genetic variation | mutation |
| Frequency of alleles | the proportion of all copies of a gene that is made up of a particular gene variant |
| MicroEvolution | The evolution of microorganisms |
| Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium | that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences. |
| Genetic drift | Genetic drift or allelic drift is the change in the frequency of a gene variant (allele) in a population due to random sampling |
| Bottleneck effect | A bottleneck is a phenomenon where the performance or capacity of an entire system is limited by a single or limited number of component.. |
| founder effect | In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very... |
| gene flow | transfer of genes from one pop. to another |
| mutatution | a Change in the normal genetic in the organism |
| Fitness through natural selection | The weaker dye the stronger survive and become stronger over time more fit. |
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