Evolution: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Human Variation - Test

Explains the diversity of life on Earth through natural selection, adaptations, and genetic variation.

A change in allele frequencies over time.

Fossil record, biogeography, anatomical homologies, molecular homologies, embryology, antibiotic resistance, pesticides/herbicide resistance

Demonstrates life’s progression through fossils

A species’ global distribution results in unique characteristics among species on different land masses

Similar features that are inherited from common ancestors, but have different functions

Similarities in DNA, RNA, or protein sequences between different species (Ex: Banana and human)

Shared early developmental stages between different species

Bacteria with the resistance trait survives, and results in a antibiotic resistant bacterial population

Resistant pest’s survival leads to the inheritance of resistance traits within a species

Environmental factors that influence the reproductive and survival success of a population

Living things (predators, competition, disease, availability of food)

Non-living (climate, habitat, temperature, availability of water)

Organisms with advantageous traits to their environment are more likely to survive and pass those traits to their offspring

Traits (characteristics inherited from an offspring’s parents) that have evolved over time through natural selection to give the organism advantages in its environment

Organism’s ability to survive and reproduce

Nucleic acid biomolecule, passed from parents to offspring

Segment of DNA that contain the instructions for the development of specific traits.

Different versions of a gene that determine variations of a trait (either Dominant or Recessive)

Observable/measurable characteristic

Alleles present for the gene influencing the characteristic

Relative frequency of an allele compared to the total number of alleles for that gene in a population.

Mating preferences within a population

Humans choose which traits are passed on