where does evolution occur?
only in populations (not indivuals )
what is all the members of one species in one place ?
population
how to know two organisms belong to the same species ?
if they can intebreed and produce fetile offspring
What percent of all organisms are now extinct?
99%
What is transitional fossil between dinosaurs and modern birds?
Archaeopteryx
Organisms that have a common ancestor will have common ______?
Biological pathways
Similarities in embryo are evidence of ____?
Common ancestory
What was name of supercontinent?
Pangaea
What type of structure if they have same function and different structure ?
Analogous structure
What type of evolution if they have different ancestory ?
Convergent evolution
What type of structure if they have different function but same structure?
Homologous structure
What type of evolution if they have same ancestory ?
Divergent evolution
What is a body structure that was useful to ancestors but useless now?
Vestigial structure
What is the heterotroph hypothesis?
The first cells were anaerobic, prokaryote(no nucleus ), and heterotrophic
What is the evidence to theory of endosymbiosis?
That chloroplasts and mitochondria have their own DNA
How old is the earth ?
4.6 billion
When did the first eukaryotic cell evolve?
1.5 billion years ago
When did the first prokaryotic cells evolve ?
3.5 billion years ago
Write the evolution of vertebrates by order?
1) fish
2)amphibians
3)reptiles
4)mammals
5)birds
what is the hypothesis that suggests life arose gradually from inorganic molecules ?
Oparin-Haldane hypothesis
which scientists mimiced the early atmosphere ?
Urey and Miller
what did ancient atmosphere consist of ?
CH4(methane)
NH3(ammonia)
water
hydrogen gas
(no free oxygen )
what provided energy for chemical reactions that producedfirst cell?
intense heat, lightning, and UV radiation in primative atmosphere
what is the theory that held that living creatures can arise from non-living matter?
spontaneous generation
who concluded that the flies laid eggs on the meat in open jar caused by maggots?
Francesco Redi
who boiled a meat broth in a swan neck flask?
louis pasteur
what was the theory that states that organisms descend from a common ancestor gradually ?and who stated it?
Gradualism / Darwin
who proposed theory of punctuated equilibrium?
Gould and Eldridge
what theory relied on ideas of inheritance of acquired traits and who said it ?
theory of Use and Disuse by Lamarck
which scientist cut the tails of rats to prove Lamarck’s theory wrong?
Weismann
what points does darwin’s theory of evolution (natural selection) include?
1)oveproduction
2)variation
3)struggle for existance
4)survival of the fittest
what is the raw material of evolution?
variation
according to theory of natural selection, who are the fittest ?
organisms that can survive and reproduce
what are the three types of natural selection?
1)directional
2)stabilizing
3)disruptive
what is the natural selection in favour of a single extreme phenotype?
directional selection
what type of selection in which the genetic diversity decreases ?
stabilizing selection
what is the selection in which both extreme phenotypes are favoured over intemediate values?
disruptive/diversifying selection
what are the causes of variation in a population?
1)mutation
2)genetic drift
3)gene flow
what i sthe raw material for variation and the raw material for evolution?
mutation
what is the chage in gene pool due to chance?
genetic drift
what are the two types of gentic drift ?
1)bottle neck effect
2)founder effect
what is reducing size of poplation by natural disasters , resulting in loss of genetic varaition ?
bottle neck
what is the reduction in genetci variation due to migration?
founder effect
what is the movement of alleles into or out of population?
gene flow
what are the factors in the HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM?
1)very large population
2)isolated population
3)no mutation
4)random mating
what are the equations for HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM?
what is the process by which new species form?
speciation
what are the types of isolation?
1)geographic isolation
2)polyploidy
3)temporal isolation
4)habitat isolation
5)behavioural isolation
why is polyploidy a cause of isolation?
poyploid organisms cant breed with non polyploid organisms and thus become isolated from them
what is temporal isolation?
organisms dont mate because they are sexually active at different times
what is the evolutionary change in interacting populations oover time due to interactions between them ?
coevolution
what is the similar development of a trait in distinct species due to similar evolutionary pressure ?
parallel evolution
what is the emergence of numeous species from a single common ancestor ?
adaptive rediation
what is the difference between divergent evolution and adaptive radiation?
divergent is mainly 2 or 3 species while radiation is many species
what is a branching diagram or tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species ?
phylogenetic tree
what are the types of diversity ?
1)genetic diversity —→of genes in 1 species
2)species diversity ——> among different species
what is a biogeographic region that is both a significant reservoir of biodiversity and threatened by humans ?
biodiversity hotspot