Biology evolution/natural selection
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- What is biophilia?
- innate curiosity for living things in divers forms
- What are the steps to the scientific method?
- observation/experiment/collect data/analyze/conclusion
- What is microevolution?
- process through which organisms make small changes over short period of time
- What is macroevolution?
- process through which organisms make changes over long period of time
- What is the theory proposed by Count LeClerc de Buffon?
- mammalian limbs are similiar and may be inherited from a common ancestor
- What is the theory proposed by LaMark?
- offsping inherit traits based on use by parents (theory of inheritance of acquired traits)
- What is the theory proposed by Malthus?
- human population is growing faster than supplies= competition for resources
- What theory gave rise to macroevolution?
- Steno and Strata Smith= oldest rock layers are the deepest
- What is natural selection?
- individual posessing certain characteristics that enable survival in a specific environment, will increase in further generations
- What is evolution?
- groups of organisms change over time so that descendants differ in morphology and physiology from ancestors
- What is Darwins theory?
- decent with modification occurs between generations, driving for is natural selection, all organisms have common ancestor
- What is mutation?
- mistakes in genetic replication
- What is gene flow?
- migration, change to a new environment
- What is genetic drift
- random occurance i.e. founder effect and bottleneck