❤️SOME TERMS RELATED TO EVOLUTION❤️
💠Adaptation:
🔶Changing to fit a niche or survive in an environment
💠Anatomy:
🔶Study of the structures of organisms
💠Artificial Selection:
🔶Characteristics selected by humans
💠Biogeography:
🔶Study of how species are distributed across the Earth
💠Biological Species:
🔶Individuals that can interbreed and produce viable offspring
💠Catastrophism:
🔶Changes in species that happen because of quick and often violent natural phenomena
💠Cladistics:
🔶Method of classifying species in groups based on ancestral relationships
💠Cladogram:
🔶Diagram of how species are related
💠Coevolution:
🔶One species changing in response to changes in another species that it interacts with, particularly predator/prey relationships
💠Creationism:
🔶Belief that a higher power created all life
💠Darwinism:
🔶Term commonly used as a synonym for evolution
💠Descent With Modification:
🔶Passing down traits that might change over time
💠Directional Selection:
🔶Type of natural selection in which an extreme characteristic is favored
💠Disruptive Selection:
🔶Type of natural selection that favors both extremes and selects against the average characteristics
💠Embryology:
🔶Study of the earliest stages of development of an organism
💠Endosymbiotic Theory:
🔶Currently accepted theory as to how cells evolved
💠Eukaryote:
🔶Organism made of cells that have membrane-bound organelles
💠Evolution:
🔶Change in populations over time
💠Fossil Record:
🔶All known traces of past life ever found
💠Fundamental Niche:
🔶All available roles an individual can play in an ecosystem
💠Genetics:
🔶Study of traits and how they are passed down from generation to generation
💠Gradualism:
🔶Changes in species that happen over long periods of time
💠Habitat:
🔶Area in which an organism lives
💠Homologous Structures:
🔶Body parts on different species that are similar and most likely evolved from a common ancestor
💠Hydrothermal Vents:
🔶Very hot areas in the ocean where primitive life might have begun
💠Intelligent Design:
🔶Belief that a higher power created life and its changes
💠Macroevolution:
🔶Changes in populations at the species level, including ancestral relationships
💠Mass Extinction:
🔶Event in which large numbers of species died out completely
💠Microevolution:
🔶Changes in species at a molecular or gene level.....
