BIOLOGY
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- also stated that organisms altered their behavior in response to environmental change
- Also well known in the world of botany for the establishments of species as the ultimate unit of taxonomy
- he believed that living things evolved in continuous upward direction
- natural history book, age of the earth, role of vestigial organs
- Principles of geology
- theory of evolution by natural selection
- theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics
- theory of use and disuse
- developed the modern taxonomic system
- established the modern concept of species. first used the term "species". Studied fossils
- french zoologists that established books and the science of comparative anatomy and paleonthology
- he published zoological philosophy
- Offspring inherited features from their parents, all that all organisms today descended from a common ancestor
- proposed that individuals were able to pass on their traits to their offspring
- scottish naturalist and proponent of uniformitarianism
- studied the origin or organisms
- indicate the 2 kinds of extinction
- indicate the 3 from the domain system
- indicate the 4 major categories of evidence of evolution
- a number of different species arise from one common ancestor
- a system of naming plants and animals in which each species is given a name consisting two terms of which the first name's the genus and the second is the species itself
- branch of biology dealing with the identification, naming, and classification of organisms
- busts of change followed by periods of stability
- comparing embryoic development of different animals helps determine evolutionary relationships in nature
- elimination of species, has two kinds
- evidence produced from comparison of the dna and rna of different species. common ancestry can be seen in the complex metabolic molecules that many different organisms share
- extinction that occurs in a slow rate
- extinction that occurs when a catastrophic event changes the environment suddenly
- features present in modern animals that are no longer in use (human tailbone, appendix, etc.)
- formation of new species by evolution from pre-existing species
- groups of organisms that can successfully interbreed and produce viable, fertile offspring
- it is made up of all the fossils ever discovered on earth can help scientist figure out what species that no longer exist looked like when they were still alive
- method of measuring age of object in years
- occurs when two populations of organisms from a specialized relationship and thus change in response to each other
- slow, constant changes over a period of time
- structures that are similar in function but have different ancestral origins, but don't have a common ancestor and are structurally different
- structures that are similar in function but with different structural compositions
- structures that have similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor, but serves a completely different function
- the study of where organisms live now and where they and their ancestors lived before in the past
- type of divergent evolution occuring on a small scale over a shorter period of time