Biology-B6-Evolution

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Evolution is the ________in inherited characteristics of a _______ overtime through a process of _______ ______?
change in inherited characteristics of a population overtime through a process of natural selection
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Life first developed on Earth around how long ago?
3 billion yrs ago
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Example?
single cells
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First, state?
the new characteristic
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Then say there would have been a ______ in the charateristic?
variation
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This is due to ______ or a ______?
genetics or a mutation
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Talk about the characteristic will be able to_____ the organisms to do?
allow
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They will?
survive
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And _______ and _____ on traits to ______?
reproduce and pass on traits to offspring
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Over several ______ these characteristics become _____?
generations
widespread
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However if two populations of one species become too different in _______?
phenotype
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This means they cannot ________ to produce _____ _____?
cannot interbreed to produce fertile offspring
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This means what has formed?
a new species
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CHARLES DARWIN
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Darwin went on?
an expedition
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Where he observed?
a variety of life
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Darwin observed that within a species there was a wide range?
of variation
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For any?
e.g.?
characteristic
fur
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He concluded that organisms with the most what?
suitable characteristics
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For the?
environment
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Are likely to be able to _____, _______ and _______ successfully?
compete, survive and reproduce
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This idea is called?
survival of the fittest
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Overtime, the _______ characteristic becomes so ______?
beneficial
common
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Within generations that the become ________and the species will ______?
widespread
change/evolve
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What book did Charles Darwin release?
On the Origin Of Species
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One controversy was it it challenged?
religion
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This is because people believed that God?
created animals and plants
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Another is that at the time scientists felt what?
Darwin didnt have enough evidence to back up his ideas
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Another was that people didnt understand?
how characteristics were inherited
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Who opposed Darwins theory?
Jean-Baptiste Lamark
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Lamark believed that a characteristic that is______ ____ will become more _____ and then this _______ characteristic would be passed onto offspring?
that is regularly used will become more developed and then this strengthened characteristic would be passed onto offspring
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However this theory was?
incorrect
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What is extinction?
where no individuals of a species remain
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What are five causes of extinction?
environment changes too quick
new predator
new disease
cant compete
catastrophic event
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