Evolution Vocab Review

No Changes in allele frequencies within a species

• Cladogram

• Genetic Equilibrium

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

Sudden, rapid changes after a stable period

• Common ancestor

• Geology

• Divergent evolution

• Punctuated equilibrium

Different structures that serve the same function; found in organisms that do not share a common ancestor

• Co Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Analogous Structures

• Punctuated Equilibrium

Diagram used to show patterns of traits among species

• Fossil

• Fitness

• Cladogram

• Artificial Selection

Organisms with the same evolutionary history adapt to different environments

• Evolution

• Divergent Evolution

• Geology

• Adaptation

Traits from an ancestor that no longer serve a useful function in current species

• Vestigial Structures

• Common Ancestor

• Homologous Structures

• Fossil

Study of Earth's history and how it changes over time

• Fossil

• Fitness

• Punctuated Equilibrium

• Geology

"Survival of the fittest"; organisms better able to adapt to their environment survive and reproduce successfully

• Co Evolution

• Artificial Selection

• Natural Selection

• Embryology

Organisms with different evolutionary histories adapt to similar environments

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Convergent Evolution

• Fitness

Heritable traits that increase an organisms ability to survive and reproduce

• Genetic Equilibrium

• Geology

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation