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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.