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WorksheetsVocab for Common Ancestry
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is biological Evolution?
Something with biology
The change in inherited traits over generations.
Birds getting bigger Becks
The change in something
What is Biogeography?
A book on biology
Geography class
The brach of biology that deals with geography in plants and animals.
Plants and animals
What is a fossil record?
Evidence that evolutionary change, through now extinct forms, lead to modern species.
Recording an old person.
What is common ancestry?
When one or more species has a relation to an ancestor species
A family tree but animals
When you have a common old thing
Ancestry that is common
What is homology?
Features that are similar to other organisms.
It’s homo biology
What is anatomical homology
Homo biology
Radical homology
Two different things
Similarity’s in many species
What is vestigial structures?
A feature or behavior that no longer seems to have a purpose in a living animal.
It exists in rocks
Not this one
What is a cladogram?
A gram if clad
A type of cereal
A diagram which has relationships between groups.
What is embryological homology?
It’s not this one
Similarities that are seen prior to adulthood
What is developmental homology?
A similarity due to derivation from a common embryological source
A difference in an animal
It’s homology
What is molecular homology
Mole biology
Biology with moles
A concept where we test relationships between modern animals and ancestors at a molecular level.
Small biology
What is continental drift
Where the contents break up with one another because they where in a toxic relationship
Losing a long time friend
The idea that earth used to be one big land mass
It’s option 3
What is Pangea?
The other idea that earth used to be one big land mass
The base knowledge behind Pandora’s box
What is a generation
All the people born and living at the same time, usually 20-30 years
A gene pool
What is gradualism?
The idea that evolution is a part of gradual changes.
Collage degree
What is microevolution?
Mini evolution
Evolutionary change within a species or small group of organisms over a short period
What is punctuated equilibrium?
Balance
That evolutionary development is naked by episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of time.
What is stasis?
A period or state of inactivity or equilibrium
That one thing in Zelda
What is a gene pool?
The stock of different genes in an interbreeding population.
Genes in a pool
What is geographic isolation?
The physical separation of members of a populations
When geography is lonely
