Chapter 10

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Who came up with the Classification system from kingdom to species

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Linnaeus

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is the process of biological change by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors.

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Evolution

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Who came up with Species shared ancestors rather than arising separately

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Buffon

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Who came up with a More-complex forms developed from less-complex forms

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E. Darwin

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Who came up with an Environmental change leads to use or disuse of a structure

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Lamarck

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What are the three theories of geologic change

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Catastrophism gradualism uniformitarianism

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The prevailing theory of geological change

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Uniformitarianism

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A feature that allow an organism to better survive in its environment

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Adaptation

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Difference in a physical trait

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Variation

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The process by which humans select traits through breeding

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Artificial selection

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A mechanism by which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptations produce ore offspring on average than do other individuals

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Natural selection

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The ability of a trait to be passed down

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Heritability

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What are the for main principles to the theory of natural selection

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Variation overproduction adaptation and descent with modification

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Natural selection can only act on _________

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Traits that already exist

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Provided evidence of evolution

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Fossils

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Fossils in ______ layers are more _______ than those in the _______ layers

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Older primitive upper

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Provides evidence of evolution

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Embryology

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similar in structures but different in function

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Homologous structures

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Have a similar function

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Analogous structures

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___________ structures are evidence of common ancestors

___________ structures are not evidence of common ancestors

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Homologous

Analogous

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Remnants of organs or structures that has a function in an early ancestor

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Vestigial structures

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Ostrich wings are an example of this

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Vestigial structures

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The study of fossils or extinct organisms

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Paleontology

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Sequences providing evidence of evolution

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Pseudogenes

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Indicate a very distant common ancestor

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Hox genes

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No longer function Carried along with functional DNA Can be clues to a common ancestor

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Pseudogenes

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Control the development of specific structures | Found in many organisms

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Hox genes

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A term for a group of similar organisms that can reproduce and produce fertile offspring?

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Species

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Which scientist propose that if an organism use the structure so much that it grew the traits of that larger structure could be passed to its offspring?

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Jean-Baptist Lamarck

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The the "present is the key to the past" describes the theory of?

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Uniformitarianism

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Which of the following is a fossil? A. A plant that has recently died B. A group of similar organisms that can reproduce C. A structure or organ that no longer functions D. A trace of an organism that existed in the past

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D

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The theory that the landforms on earths surface such as mountains waterfalls and canyons were created as a result of the sudden spectacular is called the theory of?

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Catastrophism

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The difference in physical traits of an individual from those of other individuals in the group is called a

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Variation

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Overtime adaptations can lead populations to experience

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Genetic changes

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What did Charles Darwin observed in Finch populations on the Galapagos islands off the coast of South America

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Different species on different islands

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What did Charles Darwin learn from the fossils of a giant armadillo but he found in Argentina

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Modern animals may be related to fossilized organisms

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Fossils of marine organisms high in the Andes Mountains lead Darwin to conclude that

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Great change can happen over time

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The development by scientists of the new color in a rose is the result of

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Artificial selection

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in natural selection in natural selective agent is the

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Environment

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All the rabbits living in a particular area would be an example of a

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Population

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A bird that can easily outcompete other birds for food and that can produce many eggs has a high

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Fitness rate

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Describe natural selection

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It can only act on existing traits

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An example of a vestigial structure

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The wings of an ostrich

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Biogeography is the study of the

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Distribution of organisms around the world

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What is suggested by the similarity of early embryos of different species vertebrates?

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Evolution from a distant common ancestor

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Some organisms that share a common ancestor have features that have different functions but similar structures these are known as

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Homologous structures

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If an organism has vestigial structures that structures these are known as

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Early ancestor

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Two organisms that are closely related would have

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Very similar DNA sequences

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What are pseudogenes

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Gene sequences that no longer function

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Evolution is considered to be one of the most important theories in science because it

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Unites the fields of biology, geology, chemistry, and ecology

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Protein sequences in one organism that resemble those another suggest a

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Shared ancestry