Biology Unit 6 Review

Match the following

• Microevolution

• Process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully

• Natural selection

• Evolution can occur on a small scale affecting a single population

• Macroevolution

• Evolution on a large scale affecting changes in species across populations

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Match the following

• Variation

• differences in the physical traits of organisms

• Descent with Modification

• • A change in gene frequency over time. Beneficial traits should become more common over time.

• Overproduction of Offspring

• • Lots of offspring and limited resources causes competition for those resources.

• Adaptation

• a feature that allows an organism to better survive in its environment.

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Match the following

• Gene flow

• movement of genes into/out of a population.

• Genetic Drift

• organisms more fit for their environments will survive and reproduce more offspring.

• Natural Selection

• any change in a DNA sequence.

• Mutations

• random change in the frequency of alleles in a population over time.

• Non-random mating (sexual selection)

• The selection of traits that aren’t necessarily good for survival fitness, but without them, you can’t pass on your genes at all because you can’t reproduce.

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Match the following

• Gradualism

• forming of a new species by evolution from a pre-existing species

• Extinciton

• elimination of a species

• Punctuated equilibrium

• Bursts of changes followed by periods of stability

• Speciation

• Slow, constant changes over a long period of time

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Match the following

• Divergent Evolution

• When unrelated species evolve similar characteristics because they live in similar environments

• Coevolution

• Occurs when two populations of organisms form a specialized relationship and thus change in response to each other

• Convergent Evolution

• A number of different species arise from one common ancestor

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Match the following

• Paleontology

• study of embryo development

• Biochemistry

• study of prehistoric life through the fossil record

• Biogeography

• study of chemical processes in living things

• Morphology

• study of the form of living things

• Embryology

• study of the geographic distribution of plants and animals

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Match the following

• homologous structures

• Structures with little or no function to an organism; could be leftover from an ancestor that had used the structure

• analogous structures

• similar structures that evolved independently in different organisms due to serving similar purposes; different structurally, but same functionally

• vestigial structures

• Similar structures, but different function; suggest common ancestry

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Reorder the following

• Class

• Kingdon

• Phylum

• Domain

• Order

Reorder the following

• Genus

• Class

• Family

• Order

• Species

Match the following

• Eukarya

• eukaryotes

• Archaebacteria

• prokaryotes; “true” bacteria, like pathogens
• Eubacteria

• prokaryotes in extreme environments

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