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Evolution
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Biology
9th Grade
03/27/2013

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Term
BioDiversity
3 patterns
Definition
Variety of Living Things
Locally - finches on each island
Globally - Finches vary on continents
Species Change Over Time
Term
Darwin's 5 Main Ideas
Definition
Variation Among Species - organisms differ
Struggle For Existence - More Organisms Born than live
Survival of The Fittest - Organisms with favorable traits survive
Natural Selection - Variation among Species/adapt to environment
Descent with Modification - Organisms change as they Reproduce
Term
What Ship And Where Did Darwin Travel on/to?
Definition
H.M.S. Beagle, to the Galapagos Islands
Term
Darwin's Evidence for Evolution In His Book?
(There are 6)
Definition
Fossil Record - fossils (show how animals evolved)
Biogeography -
Comparative Anatomy:
Embryology - Study of Embryos
Genetics and Molecular Biology - what scientists rely on
Testing Natural Selection - artificial testing of NS
Term
Homologous Structure
Definition
same structure, different function
Term
Vestigal Structure
Definition
Present, but no longer serves a puurpose, ex: legs on snakes, Pelvis on Whale
Term
Adaptation
Definition
Trait that comes from your parents - Survive and reproduce
Not always best, because the environment is always changing
Term
Organism Succeding in it's Environment?
How is it Measured?
Definition
Fitness, measured by number of offspring
Term
Gene Pool
Definition
Consists of all the genes, including all the different alleles for each gene in a populations
Term
Allele Frequency in a Gene Pool?
Definition
Number of times an allele occurs in a gene pool, compared to the number of alleles in that pool for the same gene
Term
Microevolution
Definition
change in allele frequency that occurs within a population
Term
Macroevolution
Definition
Changes (in Behavior) that takes place in more than a single species
Term
Natural Selection and How it is the mechanism of evolution?
Definition
-Traits Selected by nature
-Traits passed on to offspring, trait increses over time
-Over time population changes - results in changes of inherited characteristics of a population
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