Ecology Unit 4 Vocab quiz

Taxonomy

• structures in different species that are similar in function but not in structures. NOT COMMON ANCESTRY
• The scientific study of how living things are classified
• newly developing organisms
• a feature that evolved only within the group under consideration

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Evolution

• The scientific study of how living things are classified
• a feature that evolved only within the group under consideration
• structures in different species that are similar in function but not in structures. NOT COMMON ANCESTRY
• The gradual change in a species over time

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Natural Selection

• Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
• A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.
• a family tree that shows the evolutionary relationships thought to exist among different groups of organisms
• The gradual change in a species over time

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Fitness

• newly developing organisms
• Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
• Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
• An organism that cannot make its own food.

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Descent with Modification

• structures in different species that are similar in function but not in structures. NOT COMMON ANCESTRY
• The gradual change in a species over time
• An ancestral species from which later species evolved
• principle that each living species has descended, with changes, from other species over time

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Common Ancestor

• a key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters
• An ancestral species from which later species evolved
• a feature that evolved only within the group under consideration
• the evolutionary history of an organism

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binomial nomenclature

• Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
• The system of assigning a scientific name that consists of two parts: Genus species
• The gradual change in a species over time
• newly developing organisms

Phylogenetic Tree

• English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
• a key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters
• a family tree that shows the evolutionary relationships thought to exist among different groups of organisms
• The gradual change in a species over time

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Morphology

• newly developing organisms
• classification based on the structures possessed by the organism
• Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
• structures in different species that are similar because of common ancestry. COMMON ANCESTRY

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homologous structures

• the evolutionary history of an organism
• a feature that evolved only within the group under consideration
• structures in different species that are similar because of common ancestry. COMMON ANCESTRY
• An organism that cannot make its own food.

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