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AP Bio 1.4
Evolution Accounts for Life's Unity and Diversity
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was Charles Darwin's book called? | "On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection" |
| What were Darwin's two main points in his book? | contemporary species arose from a succession of ancestors and the idea of descent with modification |
| What is natural selection? | the act of the natural environment "selecting" traits for certain organisms |
| What is a "prototype"? | the common ancestor that species come from |
| What is the "tree of life"? | the adaptive radiation of a new species from a common ancestor |
| Darwin proposed that "by natural selection..." | a species could split into two or more different species |