Chapter 13: evolution
Population
A group of individuals of the same species living in the same place at the same time is called a ____.
aposematic
A nasty-tasting insect, such as a Monarch butterfly, is also very brightly colored. This coloration is known as ____ coloration.
Evolutionary adaption
A population's increase in the frequency of traits suited to the environment is called ____.
Selection event
Any occurrence that can kill up to large numbers of the population is known as a ____.
descent with modification
Besides natural selection, the other main concept in Darwin's book is ____.
The Scottish geologist who wrote Principles of Geology in 1830.
Charles lyell
6000 yrs old
During Darwin's time, the age of the Earth was thought to be ____.
Gradualism
Geological processes work over vast spans of time.
a human deciding which ones to breed
In artificial selection, such as selective breeding of crops, farm animals, and pets, the selection event is ____
true
Individuals don't evolve, but populations do
According to ____, the mechanism for evolution was by the inheritance of acquired traits.
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Stromatolites
Oldest known fossils
Aristotle
Species were fixed (permanent) and did not evolve, according to the Greek philosopher, ____.
Alfred Russel Wallace
The British naturalist, working overseas in Indonesia and Malaysia, who independently came up with the same ideas that Darwin had
Charles Darwin
The Englishman who wrote "On the Origin of Species" in 1844.
Uniformitarianism
The geological processes that shaped Earth are the same processes operating today. Charles lyell
natural selection
The main mechanism for evolution is ____.
homology
The same anatomical structure, present in the same relative place in different organisms, but which may have a different function in each.
all of them
Which of these are used as evidence for evolution: fossils and the fossil record, biogeography, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, molecular biology?
Evolution can be defined as ____.
change over time
adaption
heritable characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in an environment
Biogeography
species are found in certain areas because their ancestors lived in the area also
adaptive radiation
the rapid formation of lots of species from one common ancestor
molecular biology
the study of biological structures, functions and heredity
comparative embryology
the study of the similarities and differences in the embryos of different species
continental drift
why are marsupials distributed around the world