Studied by 1 personGenetic correlation
________ is when selection on one trait causes a change in another trait.
transitional feature
A(n) ________ is a trait in a fossil species that is intermediate between those of ancestral (older) and derived (younger) species.
Lamarck
________ proposed the first formal theory of evolution that species are not static but change through time.
Geologic time scale
________ is a sequence of named intervals called eons, eras, and periods that represented the major events in Earth history.
Sedimentary rocks
________ form from sand or mud or other materials deposited in layers at locations such as beaches or river mouths.
Darwin
________ claimed that instead of being unimportant, variation among individuals in a population was the key to understanding the nature of species which is viewed as population thinking.
Natural selection
________ occurs when individuals with certain heritable traits produce more surviving offspring than do individuals without those traits.
Viαriαtion
________ exists among individual orgαnisms that mαke up a populαtion.
Phylogenetic tree
________ is a branching diagram that depicts the ancestor- descendant relationships among species or other taxa.
Acclimatization
________ is a change in an individual s phenotype that occurs in response to a change in natural environmental conditions.
modification
Descent with ________ is the pattern component of the theory of evolution by natural selection makes two predictions about the nature of species:
Biological fitness
________ is the ability of an individual to produce surviving, fertile offspring relative to that ability in other individuals in the population.
Structural homology
________ is a similarity in adult morphology, or form.
Homology
________ is a similarity that exists in species due to common ancestry.
Extant species
________ refers to species that are living today.
heritable trait
An adaptation is a(n) ________ that increases the fitness of an individual in a particular environment relative to individuals lacking the trait.
fossil
A(n) ________ is any trace of an organism that lived in the past.
vestigial trait
A(n) ________ is a reduced or incompletely developed structure that has no function, or reduced function, but is clearly similar to functioning organs or structures in ancestral or closely related species.
Genetic homology
________ is similarity that occurs in DNA nucleotide sequences, RNA nucleotide sequences, or amino acid sequences.
Darwin
________ distilled the process of evolution by natural selection into four simple postulates (criteria) that form a logical sequence:
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