variation & evolution
Cards (26)
- What can lead to huge variation between individuals?
- What is the process called that can lead to the evolution of new species?
- What term describes the differences among individuals in a population?
- What does a phenotype describe?
- What two factors determine a phenotype?
- What do genes code for?
- What is a genome?
- Why do identical twins have different appearances?
- How can the environment affect identical twins' height?
- What influences most of our traits?
- What causes genetic variation?
- What is a mutation?
- What is the effect of most mutations on phenotypes?
- What can beneficial mutations do?
- How do beneficial mutations affect survival?
- Who proposed the idea of survival of the fittest?
- What did Darwin observe about traits in offspring?
- What does natural selection describe?
- What is evolution according to Darwin?
- What does the theory of evolution imply about current species?
- How long ago did simple life forms first develop?
- What evidence supports Darwin's theory of evolution?
- What occurs through natural selection over time?
- What happens when two populations can no longer interbreed?
- What is the end goal of evolution through natural selection?
- What are the key concepts of natural selection and evolution?