- Individuals in a population all possess the same traits.
- All individuals in a population have equal reproductive success.
- Species are constant and unchanging in their present forms.
- Adaptations are always perfectly suited to the relationship between the organism and its environment.
- Darwin proposed that evolution occurs by the process of ______________________________.
- Typically, fewer species live on islands than on the nearest continents.
- Natural selection produces new traits needed for survival in a population.
- Darwin was the first biologist had proposed that species changed through time.
- An inherited trait that enhances an individual's ability to survive in a particular environment is an
- Adaptive radiation occurs in one species that lives in one habitat.
- Darwin said that humans have modified other species by selecting and breeding individuals with desired traits, a process called ____________
- In South America, a lizard that stands on its head and lets water condense on its back to roll into its mouth, is verysimilar to a beetle in South America that does the same thing to attain moisture. This is an example of__________
- Antibiotics encourage the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria.
- All species are linked to one another by common ancestry.
- Organisms evolve/adapt during their lifetimes
- 250 MYA, all the non-ocean regions of the earth were joined, making a supercontinent called_________
- Wallace publically announced his theory of Natural Selection before ___________
- _________________ is the rapid speciation of groups of organisms that often follows a mass extinction event.
- The oldest fossils on record are basically fossilized layers of prokaryotic mats (biofilms containing cyanobacteria)called ___________________
- Structures that represent a common ancestor _____________________________, but now serve a different function