evolution

• Analogous structures


  • Wings of butterflies and bats illustrate convergent evolution despite different ancestries
• Conservation efforts


  Focus on legal enforcement and regulating human impact on ecosystems
• Conservation strategies


  Prioritize sustainable practices and biodiversity preservation, crucial for ecological balance and species survival
• Carrying capacity


  Limits population growth through resource availability, influencing species dynamics
• Evolutionary biology


  Examines species' adaptations and evolutionary processes, informed by genetic, fossil, and anatomical evidence
• Genomic DNA comparisons


  Offer insights into evolutionary relationships, underlining genetic similarities and divergences
• Hemoglobin comparisons


  Suggest a closer genetic link between humans and chimpanzees than between humans and dogs
• Lamarck's theory


  Posited that use and disuse of body parts could influence evolutionary changes; a concept now superseded by genetics
• Natural selection theory


  Underpins evolutionary changes, driven by environmental pressures and genetic variations
• Sedimentary rocks


  Due to their formation processes, are prime sites for fossil discoveries, preserving historical biological data
• Short-term interbreeding in endangered species

  Can reduce genetic diversity, impacting long-term survival
• Cretaceous Period's mass extinction


  Including dinosaur deaths, represents an event rather than an adaptive response
• Population growth


  Slows down as it approaches its carrying capacity
• Makahiya plant's leaf-closing response to touch


  Is a defensive behavioral adaptation