Evolution Vocab

A loss of genetic variation due to a decrease in population for at least one generation

• natural selection

• adaptation

• genetic bottleneck

• endosymbiosis

A process that determines which organisms will survive and pass on their traits to the next generation

• natural selection

• anaerobic

• mimicry

• reproduce

A theory that states that mitochondria and chloroplast were once free living bacteria that were engulfed by larger cells

• speciation

• biogenesis

• cladogram

• endosymbiosis

Developed the theory of natural selection after a trip to the Galapagos Island

• Darwin

• biogenesis

• prokaryotic

• cladogram

An adaptation that allows one organism to resemble a different species (ex. viceroy and monarch butterflies)

• survive

• mimicry

• speciation

• reproduce

The idea that life comes from existing life; you cannot get a cell without an original cell

• biogenesis

• camouflage

• Darwin

• reproduce

Changes in a species over a long time and many generations

• natural selection

• survive

• evolution

• adaptation

Traits that allow an organism to survive in its surroundings

• endosymbiosis

• reproduce

• speciation

• adaptation

An adaptation that allows organisms to blend in with the environment

• mimicry

• camouflage

• reproduce

• evolution

A branching diagram that shows proposed ancestry

• evolution

• Darwin

• cladogram

• endosymbiosis