7th Grade Science Evolution~PearsonSucess
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| Aristotle classifyed by thoses that can..... | swim,fly and walk/crawl/run
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| Who recorded each species appearance,movement and behavior? | Aristotle
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| Who believed that species are more closely related based on observable features? | Linnaeus
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| Who invented Binomial Nomenclature? | Linnaeus
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| What is a group that can mate and produce fertile offspring? | Species
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| A Genus is..... | a group of similar, closely, related organisms
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| Who thought that species with similar evolutionary histories are classifyed more closely together? | Darwin
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| What is the process by which a species changes, gradually based on it's enviroment? | Evolution
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| Who wrote "Philosophic Zoologigue: Therory of Inheirited Acquired Characteristic"? | Lamarck
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| Who's ideas were highly disaproved? | Lamarck
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| Lamarck believed in a __________ therory... | use/disuse
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| Who thought that changes occur within a lifetime are passed to offspring? | Lamarck
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| How is Binomial Nomenclature formatted? | Genus,species (underlined or itailizized)
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| Wallace wrote......? | "The Malay Archipelago"
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| Who was the first to concieve the idea of evolution through natural selection? | Wallace
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| Darwin wrote.....? | "On the Origin Species"
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| Who officialy established/ originated the theorory of evolution? | Darwin
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| What ship did Darwin ride on? | HMS Beagle
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| Which islands did Darwin visit? | Galapogos
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| Darwin is best known for studying.....? | Finches
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| What is the fact that some variations gradually accumulate while other variations disapear? | Selection
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| What is adaptattion (add-dap-tay-shun)? ;) | a trait that helps an oganism survive and reproduce
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| What is one example of adaptation? | *answers may vary*
.the trait of beak shape.
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| What is an example of natural selection? | *answers may vary*
.different beak shapes.
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| The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their enviromentare more likely to survive and reproduce, than other members of the same species? | Natural Selection
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| Dog breeding is an example of...? | Artificial selection
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| In artificial selection who chooses which traits will be passed on? | Humans
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| Far more turtles are born than will survive is an example of....? | Overproduction
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| The struggle for limited resources is...? | Competition
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| A turtle not finding enough food or shelter oooorrrr suffer to predation is an example of....? | Competition
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| Some turtles are born with the ability to swim faster away from predation. This is a differance between cells of individuals of the same species. What is the term for this situation? | Variation
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| The ability to reproduce offspring who can also reproduce desirable/fertile offspring: ex. survivng turtle live long enough to reproduce and pass genes. This is an example of....? | Biological Fitness
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| What is the process in which new genetically different species evovle from the rest of the main/original populaation? | Speciation or Population Bottleneck
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| What is the definition and an example for Geographic Isolation? | The seperation of 2 population of the same species or breeding group by a physical barrier: ie... land, water, habitait or volcano. An example of this is the different types of African Elephants... western is different than central, eastern and southern.
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| What is it called when organisms are seperated by behavioral, physical or genetic differances... you seperate yourself.(ex:birds of the same species in different habitaits decorate nests with different material to attract mates.....? | Reproductive Isolation
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| Blank is when changes occur in genetics due to chance (not natural selection.... probability)? | Random Genetic Drift
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| What is an example of a Random Genetic Drift? | *Ansers will vary*
"smalll beetles are generally weaker and should die off, but live donto random situations......."
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| What do scientists use to track the evolutionary history of species? | A Branching Tree
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| What are the four types of evidence that scientists use to determine relationships among greoups? | Anatomical (body Structure)
Embryonic (early) Development
DNA
Fossil Record
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| What is Anatomical(Body Structure)? | Comparing the struture of living things
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| What is a homologous structure? | Body structure that are structually similar in related species;provide evidence that the structures were inheireted from a COMMON ANCESTOR!!!
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| What type of evidence compares stages of developement BEFORE birth? | Embryonic (Early) Developement
~Having similar structures in early development suggest relationship and a common ancestor
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| How is DNA evidence used? | ~Compares the chemiccal makeup of living AND extinct organisms...
(DNA, RNA, Nucleic Acids (Make DNA) Amino Acids (Make Proteins))
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| What does fossil record compare? | The structure and chemical makeup of EXTINCT organisms.
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| What is punctuated equilibria? | A hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change.
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| What is the policy of gradual reform rather than sudden change or revolution called? | Gradualism (slow and stedy)
~Darwin believed in this
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| What type of dating iss it when two fossils are being compared in order to find which is older? | Relative
Dating
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| What is absolute dating? | Absolute dating is when scientists use the speed of radio active decay of elements to predict the actual age of an individual fossil.
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| What is the order of the levels of classifacation? | Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
(7 levels)
~Keeping Precious Creatures Organized For Grumpy Scientists
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| Who's theory of evolution LED TO Darwin's Therory of evolution? | Wallace
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| Who's therory of ACQUIRED characteristics was criticized and disapproved? | Lamarck
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| What is the process of grouping things based on their similarities? | Classification
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| Genus isss... | A classifacation grouping that consists of a number of similar, closely related species
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| What is a taxonomic key? | A series of paired statments that describe the physical chracteristics of different organisms
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| When a variation makes an organism better able to survive and reproduce, then this variation gradually accumulates while other variations disappear, what is this term called? | Selection
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| The process by which organisms that are better suited to their enviroment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the same species is..... | Natural Selection
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