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17 Cards in this Set
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Analogous Structures |
Body part that is similar in function as a bodypart of another organism but is structurally different
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Embryology |
The study of the formation and development ofembryos
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Endosymbiosis |
A process by which the mitochondria andchloroplasts of eukaryotic cells probably evolved from symbiotic associationsbetween small prokaryotic cells living inside larger ones.
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Evolution |
Genetic change in a population or species overgenerations
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Founder Effect |
Random change in the gene pool that occurs in a small colony of a population
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Genetic Drift |
A change in the gene pool of a small population due to chance.
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Half-life |
Amount of time it takes for half of the isotope in a sample to decay into its product isotope
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Homologous Structure |
Structures that are similar in different species of common ancestry.
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Lamarck |
French biologist who stated that an organism could acquire characteristics during its lifetime and then pass on those characteristics to offspring
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Linnaeus |
Father of Taxonomy, the science of naming organisms; binomial nomenclature
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Macroevolution |
The main events in the evolutionary history of life on Earth.
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Microevolution |
A change in a population's gene pool over a succession of generations; evolutionary changes in species over relatively brief periods of geological time
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Morphology |
The study of form and structure |
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Natural Selection |
The idea that a population of organisms canchange over the generations if individuals having certain heritable traitsleave more offspring than other individuals, resulting in a change in thepopulation’s genetic composition over time.
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Speciation |
The origin of new species |
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Taxonomy |
The branch of biology concerned withidentifying, naming, and classifying species.
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Darwinism |
Refers to Darwins ideas of evolutionspecifically by natural selection
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