Evolution Flashcards

(29 cards)

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Fossil

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When a prehistoric organisms remains are impressed into rock over long periods of time

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Homologous part

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Modified structures that came from a common ancestor

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Vestigial structures

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  • Structures that don’t hAve a function

- May be homogolous with useful structures in other organisms

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Selective breeding

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Humans pick plant and animal breeding for a special phenotype trait

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Natural selection

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The best individual will survive longer with the better trait

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Competition

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Competition between organisms in which the fitness of another is lowered

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Variation

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Rains in different organisms that make them unique from each other

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Adaptation

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Animals evolve as certain variations increase, decrease in a population

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Species

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Group of organisms that breed and produce offspring in nature

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Geological isolation

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Environmental variations for two areas will be different and naturally selected

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Speciation

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Evolution if a new species

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Genetic drift

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Variation in a relative frequency of different genotypes in a small population

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Convergent evolution

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When different organisms that aren’t related develop the same traits based off of living in the same environment

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Gradualism

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Slow and steady changes

-happens with environment is stable

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15
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Punctuated equilibrium

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Long periods of very little change
To
Quick periods of fast change
(Sudden change in environment)

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Allopatric speciation

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Geographical isolation

17
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Sympatric speciation

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New species form without geographical separation

18
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The 7 types of evidence scientists use to study evolution

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Fossils, DNA, comparative anatomy, biogeography, direct observation, vestigial structures, comparative embryology

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Evolution

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When different organisms develop and diversify from the early history.

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4 adaptions of primates

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  1. High levels of problem solving
  2. Flexible shoulders and forelimbs
  3. Hands r flexible with 5 independent fingers
  4. Opposable thumbs
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What are structural functions?

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Adaptations for anatomy

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What are functional adaptions?

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Adaptions for physiology

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What are behavioral adaptions

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Animals responding to the environment

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Homo habilis

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1.8 mya
Brain was larger than earlier apes
Used stone tools

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Homo erectus
``` 1 mya No chin Large brain Made and used fire Was in groups Migrated in Africa, Asia, and maybe Europe ```
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Homo sapians
Made 100,000 years ago. Humans Spread throughout the world based on neanderthals
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Neanderthals
``` Found in Europe + Southwest Asia Short Powerful Thick skulls No chin ```
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What are the 5 conditions for the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium ?
1. No new mutations 2. No migration 3. Large population 4. Mating random 5. No natural selection
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What is the endosymbiotic theory?
The theory is when larger cells engulfed smaller ones. The smaller ones became organelles.