Evolutionary Biology
Answer the following questions utilizing all of the vocabulary words provided. Be thorough in your answers to properly utilize all vocabulary words. Vocabulary words are not limited to single use, they may be used more than once. You may need to build a concept map for your answer before you begin writing.
1. How can a change in the environment initiate a change in a population?
Adaptation, Artificial selection, Catastrophism, Directional selection, Disruptive selection, Evolution, Fitness, Fossil, Heritability, Natural selection, Population, Species, Stabilizing selection, Variation
2. How is the scientific theory of evolution supported by different disciplines?
Adaptation, Biogeography, Comparative anatomy, Embryology, Fossil record, Geologic time, Homologous structure, Paleontologist, Species, Theory, Vestigial organ
3. What mechanisms have allowed for diversity in organisms?
Allele frequency, Bottleneck effect,Diversity, Extinction, Founder effect, Gene migration (gene flow), Gene pool, Genetic drift, Genetic recombination, Mutation, variation
4. How does science help us explain how all life, including us, came to be?
Bacterium, Chloroplast, Endosymbiosis, Fossils, Mitochondria, Reliability
5. How have new discoveries helped us to redefine the relationships among organisms?
Ancestral character, Binomial nomenclature, Cladogram, Derived character, Domain, Genetic code, Hierarchy, Kingdom
