ch 20

Cards (5)

  • Genetic variation

    Differences in alleles of genes found within individuals in a population
  • Evolution

    How an entity changes through time
  • The development of the modern concept of evolution is traced to Darwin
  • Charles Darwin: '"Through time, species accumulate differences; as a result, descendants differ from their ancestors. In this way, new species arise from existing ones."'
  • Darwin was not the first to propose a theory of evolution, but he proposed natural selection as the mechanism of evolution