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INTRODUCTION Flashcards

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Lamarck assumed _______ had short necks originally and ate grass

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giraffes

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-The largest mass extinction happened 251 million years ago
-Marked the end of the Paleozoic Era and the start of the Mesozoic Era
-Reptiles and amphibians survived

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Permian Extinction

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  • 19th century English economist
  • If population grew (more Babies born
    than die)
  • Insufficient living space
  • Food runs out
  • Darwin applied this theory to animals
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Thomas Malthus

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Darwin’s Theory rests on 5 principles:

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  1. Fossil Record
  2. Comparative Anatomy
  3. Embryology and Development
  4. DNA Comparison
  5. Species Distribution
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it explains diversity in a way that each organism originated independently, and that each organism has remained the same

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Special Creation

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  • Species remain unchanged for thousands of years, then suddenly undergo rapid changes
  • Fossil evidence of trilobites – unchanged for millions of years, then suddenly died off
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Punctuated Equilibrium

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_______- breeding for desired traits
_______– naturally “desired” traits are bred more often – causes gradual change in species over time (evolution)

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Artificial
Natural

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  • French geologist and naturalist
  • published Philosophie Zoologique in 1809
  • Speculated about mechanisms of biological evolution, offered no evidence
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JEAN BAPTISTE LAMARCK

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  • Proposed by Georges Cavier
  • Earth was subjected to periodic catastrophes
  • all the existing organisms would die and new organisms would be created after every catastrophe
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THEORY OF CATASTROPHISM

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The Earth has existed for ____ billion years

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4.6

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-Started 45 million years and continues today
-Age of Mammals (Humans evolve)
-Ice Ages
-Flowering plants

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Cenozoic Era

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-Began 251 million years ago
-Age of Reptiles
-Rocky Mountains form

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Mesozoic Era

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Darwin collected the preserved remains of ancient organisms, called ________.

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fossils

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4 Factors Change the Gene Pool

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Natural Selection
Mutation
Migration
Isolation

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This theory proposed that the Lithosphere is divided into six major plates

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Plate Tectonic Theory

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Darwin’s Theory based on 4 main ideas:

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Variations
Inheritance of traits
Overproduction
Survival of the fittest

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4 categories of geologic time scale

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EON
ERA
PERIOD
EPOCH

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-Oldest and Longest Time Period
- Almost 90% of Earth’s History
- From beginning of Earth (4.6 billion ago) to 540 Million years ago
- Oldest rocks are deepest rocks

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PRE-CAMBRIAN TIME

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Categories of fossil types

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Trace fossil
Molds and casts
Replacement
Petrified
Amber
Original Material

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_________, or change over time, is the
process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.

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It determines the order of formation of remains using stratigraphic methods (Qualitative method of dating)

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RELATIVE Dating

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This single supercontinent broke up into pieces which drifted slowly away from each other

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  • Evolution through slow change
  • Believed to be true by Darwin and many other scientists
  • Fossil evidence supports this
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  • Began 542 million years ago and ended 251 million years ago
  • For the first time on Earth, organisms had hard parts (shells, exoskeletons)
  • Pangea formed
  • “Age of Fish”
  • Plants begin to grown on land
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Paleozoic Era

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This theory was proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1915
Continental Drift Theory
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It determines the age of remains using radiometric methods (Quantitative method of dating)
ABSOLUTE Dating
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Because of similar ____, organisms of the same species have the same basic proteins
DNA
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structures that have different mature forms in different organisms, but develop from the same embryonic tissue
Homologous Structures
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Darwin was fascinated in particular by the land tortoises and marine iguanas in the ___________.
Galápagos
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A ______________ is a well-supported testable explanation of phenomena that have occurred in the natural world.
scientific theory
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Each living organism has descended, with changes from other species over time
Descent with Modification
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How do you think Darwin came up with his theory?
Voyage of the Beagle (through this, he had evidence to propose a revolutionary hypothesis about how life changes over time)
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- 1795 Theory of Geological change - Forces change earth’s surface shape - Changes are slow - Earth much older than thousands of years
James Hutton
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______________--differences among individuals of a species _____________ -- nature provides the variation among different organisms, and humans select those variations they find useful.
Natural selection Artificial selection
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Divisions of the Precambrian Time
Hadean Archean Proterozoic
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-Mass extinction that happened 65 million years ago -Marked the end of the Mesozoic Era and the beginning of the Cenozoic Era -All of the dinosaurs and half of the other animals and plants went extinct
Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction
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Study of distribution of organisms on earth
Biogeography
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- "Current geological processes are the same as those at work in the past" - Proponents are James Hutton (Father of modern geology) and Sir Charles Lyell
PRINCIPLE OF UNIFORMITARIANISM
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Eras under Phanerozoic Eon
Paleozoic (Old Life) Mesozoic (Middle Life) Cenozoic (New Life)
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it explains diversity in a way that all organisms originated from common ancestors, and that organisms have and continue to change over time
Evolution
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organs that serve no useful function in an organism (i.e.) appendix, miniature legs, arms
Vestigial organs
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His theory was effectively presented to the world in 1859 when his book "The Origin of Species" was published
CHARLES DARWIN
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It refers to the progressive changes in organisms that persist over time; it helps explain the great diversity, wide geographical distribution, adaptations and origins of organisms
EVOLUTION

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