Genetics and evolution test:

Cards (15)

  • What gives us the best evidence for evolution?
    Fossils.
  • Fossils may be formed from parts of organism that have not decayed because conditions were absent.
  • Fossils may be formed when parts of an organisms are replaced by minerals as they decay.
  • Fossils may be formed when traces are preserved such as footprints.
  • Why is the fossil record not complete? 

    Not found yet, not formed.
  • What do we call it when there are no remaining individuals of a species still alive? 

    Extinct.
  • MRSA bacteria are resistance to what? 

    Antibiotics.
  • Give one cause of antibiotic resistance. 

    Not finishing a full course of antibiotics.
  • Give one way we can reduce the rate of antibiotic resistance strains developing. 

    Stop taking antibiotics carelessly, overuse.
  • What do we call organising living organisms into groups?
    Classification.
  • What is the binomial naming system made up of?
    Genus + species.
  • Who developed the classification system of living things. 

    Linnaeus.
  • Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
  • Who proposed the 3 domain system of classification? 

    Woesse.
  • The 3 domains in this system are:
    Archaea, bacteria and eukaryote.