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What is evolution

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Changes are n types of organisms over a period of time

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What are fossils

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Some remnant of an organism that proved its existence

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What can fossils be of

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Imprints of bacteria, leaves, insects, pollen, or flower parts
Tools, pottery shards, bones, and cave drawings

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What is relative dating

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Fossil age

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How does fossil age work

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Oldest fossils are in the deepest sedimentary rock layers.

Younger layers hold newer more complex fossils

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What is absolute dating be used to determine

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A precise age in years

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How does absolute dating work

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Uses the decay of radio-isotopes, such as carbon 14

Once an organism dies, it no longer breathes so it stops receiving carbon 14

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What is the half life of carbon 14

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5730 yeas

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How old are the oldest fossils

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3 billion years old

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What are comparative studies used for

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To establish evolutionarily relationships between organisms

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What is comparative anatomy

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Comparing specific body structures

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What is are analogous structures

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Similar functions, but the structure is different

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What are homologous structures

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Similar structures but the function is different

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What is are vestigial structures

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Structures are reduced in size and gave no known functions

There resemble structures in other organisms

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What is comparative embryology

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The comparison of embryonic development

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What is comparative cytology

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Observing similarities in cell structures

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In comparative embryology what does the more similar the development mean

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The closer the relationship between the species

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What do all cells have in common

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Similar organelles that preform identical functions

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What organelles do eukaryotic cells and prokaryotic cells have in common

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Plasma membrane, cytoplasm, and ribosomes

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What does comparative biochemistry compare

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Similarities involving proteins, enzymes, and nucleic acids

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Through what process to all organisms share genetic codes

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Transcription and translation

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What do all organisms carry out the same way

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Cell respiration

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What to all autotrophs carry out the same way

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Photosynthesis

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Who were the people who contributed support for evolution

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James Hutton
Charles Lyell
Thomas Malthus

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What did James Hutton do
Was a geologist Studied age of the earth Sedimentation of rocks occur over several millennium
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What did Charles Lyell | Think
Geographical events must be explained in terms of process that are observable today.
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What did Thomas Malthus do
Was an economist who thought that if population growth went unchecked would lead to starvation. He included disease, war, disaster, and famine
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What was J B Lamarck's theory
Stated that organisms can change their body structures over the course of a lifetime. Also the acquired traits could be passed to the offspring
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What is an Atrophy structure
Structure decreases in mass with disuse
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What is a hypertrophy structure
Structure increases in mass with use
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What did August Weissman do
He disproved Lamarck's theory of use and disuse. He used mice to do so over the course of 22 generations
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What did Darwin do
Came up with theory of natural selection
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What are the stages of natural selection
``` Overproduction Struggle for existence Natural selection Variation Speciation ```
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What is overproduction
Organism produce more offspring than can survive
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What is struggle for survival
There are limited resources available
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What is natural selection
Differences between groups of organisms of one species
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What is directional variation
Single phenotype is favoured causing the allele frequency to continuously shift in one direction
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What is stabilizing variation
When intermediate states are favoured and extreme variations become less common (Takes out extremes)
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What is disrupted variation
When both extremes are favoured and intermediate stated become less common or lost. (only extremes)
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What is speciation
Creating new species
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How does speciation works
After many generations that are involved with natural selection a population may be so different that the new population can no longer reproduce with the original species. It involves isolation
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What is isolation
Anything which prevents two groups in a species from interbreeding
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What is geographic isolation
A population is divided by a natural barrier
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What is reproductive isolation
The differences between the isolated groups become so great they can no longer interbreed
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Can geographic isolation cause a speciation event
No. It can instigate a speciation event, but genetic changes are necessary to complete the process.
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What is microevolution
A change in gene frequency within a population. | Is evolution on a small scale and can be observed over shorter periods of time.
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What's industrial melanism
Changes in the colours of a population as a result of human activity
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What's macroevolution
Long term changes that make a new species. | Over a long period of time
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What are the genre patterns of evolution
``` Divergent evolution Convergent evolution Adaptive radiation Adaptions Symbiosis ```
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What is divergent evolution
Different groups evolve from one ancestor
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What's convergent evolution
Two or more different groups evolve so that they resemble one another strongly
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What is adaptive radiation
Organisms spread into new environments and become adapted through natural selection. An example of divergent evolution
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What is an adaptation
An anatomical structure, physiological process, or behavioural trait of an organism that has evolved over a period of time by the process of natural selection. It increases the expected long term reproductive success of the organism.
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What's camouflage and mimicry
Adaptations that some animals use as protection from predators
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What are camouflage
An animal that looks like something in its environment
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What is mimicry
Use colours and markers to look like another animal
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What is symbiosis
Two species live in close association with each other and at least one member of the pair benefits while the other can be harmed, benefits, or is neither harmed or benefits
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What is mutualism
Both organisms benefit
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What's parasitism
One organism benefits while the other is harmed
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What is commensalism
One organism benefits while the other is neither harmed or benefits
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What's the heterotrophs hypothesis
Suggests a probable sequence in which organisms appeared.
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What are the stages of the heterotroph hypothesis
NO O2 was available on old earth First organisms were were anaerobic heterotrophs and used water for food and release CO2 as a waste product Next organisms used CO2 for food and were anaerobic autotrophs Next organisms used O2 and were aerobic autotrophs
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What's gradualism
Evolution occurs slowly and continuously overtime
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What's punctuated equilibrium
Evolution can occur quickly and it can be followed by long periods of little or no change at all
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What are population genetics
The study of the genes in an entire population at one time
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What's a population
All the members of s species in an area
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What's a gene pool
All the alleles within a population
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What's a gene frequency
Percent of alleles for one trait for one trait that are dominant or recessive
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What's an allele
Variation of a gene
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What is the hardy Weinberg law
States that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences
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What does p2 mean
Dominant allele
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What does q mean
Recessive allele
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What does P2 mean
Homozygous dominant
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What does 2pq mean
Heterozygous
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What does q2 mean
Homozygous
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What 5 conditions must be met for the hardy | Weinberg law to be true
``` Large population No migration No mutations No natural selection Random mating ```
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What's a large population
In small populations, alleles might be lost by the death of a few individuals
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What does no migration mean
Individuals may not migrate into or out of a population
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Why can't there be mutations
Mutations change the frequency of the alleles in the population
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Why can't there be natural selection
Each member of population must survive long enough to reproduce
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Why must there be random mating
Each individual in a population must have an equal chance to reproduce
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Why does the hardy Weinberg law not work
Mutations occur spontaneously Reproduction is not random Natural selection does not occur
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Why does the failure of the hardy Weinberg law is a sign that evolution occurs.
There are changes in the allele frequencies | External factors change in frequency

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