Biology Chapter 15!
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| The process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms; change over time. | show 🗑
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| show | Theory
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| Preserved remains or evidence of an ancient organism. | show 🗑
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| show | 5 years
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| What was Darwin's hypothesis? | show 🗑
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| show | Climates and Habitats
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| show | James Hutton
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| show | Thomas Malthus
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| show | Jean-Babtiste Lamarck
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| Who in 1831 set sail on the H.M.S. Beagle, on a voyage that would provide him with vast amounts of evidence leading to his theory of evolution? | show 🗑
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| show | Charels Lyell
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| Who in 1858 wrote to Darwin speculating on evolution by natural selection, bases on his studies of the distribution of plants and animals? | show 🗑
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| show | Hutton and Lyell
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| Who proposed that by selective use or disuse of organs, that organisms acquired or lost certain traits during their lifetime and that these traits could be passed on to their offspring? | show 🗑
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| show | Malthus
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| show | Lamarck
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| What is the theory that says all organisms have an innate tendency toward complexity and perfection? | show 🗑
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| show | Use and Disuse
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| show | Inheritance of Acquired Traits
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| show | Tendency Towards Perfection
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| What is this an example of? By trying to use their front limbs for flying, birds could eventually transform those limbs into wings. | show 🗑
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| What is this an example of? If a winged animal did not use its wings, the wings would decrease in size over generations and finally disappear. | show 🗑
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| show | Inheritance of Acquired Traits
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| Selection by humans for breeding of useful traits from the natural variation among different organisms. | show 🗑
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| When the members of each species compete regularly to obtain food, living space, and other necessities of life. | show 🗑
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| show | Fitness
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| show | Adaptation
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| show | Survival of the Fittest
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| show | Descent with Modification
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| show | Common Descent
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| Structures that have different mature forms in organisms but developed from the same embryonic tissues. | show 🗑
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| An organ that serves no useful functions in an organism. | show 🗑
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