variation and evolution
Cards (25)
- What can lead to huge variation between individuals?
- What is the process that can lead to the evolution of new species?
- What do we call the differences among individuals in a population?
- What describes the observable characteristics of an individual?
- What two factors interact to determine a phenotype?
- What do genes code for?
- What is a genome?
- Who has a unique genome apart from identical twins?
- How can identical twins differ in height?
- What can cause skin color differences in identical twins?
- What influences most of our traits?
- What is a mutation?
- What is the effect of most mutations on phenotypes?
- What can beneficial mutations do?
- Who proposed the idea of survival of the fittest?
- What did Darwin notice about certain traits?
- What is natural selection?
- What does evolution describe?
- 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 do fossil records provide evidence for?
- What is the summary of evolution through natural selection?
- What happens when two populations can no longer interbreed?
- What is the significance of the phrase "survival of the fittest"?