| Term | Definition |
|---|
| HMS Beagle | the ship Darwin sailed on |
| Galapagos islands | the famous islands Darwin conducted many observations on |
| artificial selection | the breeding of organisms to produce offspring with desirable traits |
| natural selection | the force that caused organisms with certain variations to survive & reproduce & pass their variations to the next generation |
| mimicry | when an organism resembles another more harmful organism |
| camouflage | when an organism blends in with its surroundings |
| missing links | an intermediate form that must be present in the fossil record to show progression of species (& is not present) |
| homologous structures | common features in organisms that have similar function |
| 21 | how old Darwin was when he studied as a naturalist in 1831 |
| Redi | helped disprove spontaneous generation (meat/fly experiment) |
| biogenisis | life comes from pre-existing life |
| Oparin | first tried to prove life could come from a mixture of amino acids, gases, & lightning |
| protocells | where evolutionists believe the first true cells evolved from |
| prokaryotes | what evolutionists believe the first true cells were |
| endosymbiosis | tries to explain the evolution of a eukaryotic cell from a prokaryotic cell by suggesting cells ingested bacteria which later turned into organelles |
| Hutton | wrote the Theory of the Earth & developed the Theory of Uniformatarianism |
| Darwin | wrote the Origin of Species by Natural Selection |
| micro-evolution | a linear change within a kind of organism |
| vestigial structures | organs that evolutionists claim have no function |
| gene pool | the total genes in a given population |
| genetic equilibrium | what the population is in when the frequency of genes in a population is stable |
| stabilizing selection | a change in gene frequency of a population where the average individual is favored |
| reproductive isolation | formally interbreeding organisms can no longer mate & produce fertile offspring |
| spontaneous generation | living material can come from non-living material |
| macro-evolution | vertical changes which would change the organism completely with lots of time |
| analogous structures | organisms not related together but evolved with similar functions |
| mutation | error in genetic code that needs to be positive/beneficial |
| gene flow | the transport of genes by migrating individuals |
| directional selection | a change in gene frequency of a population where one extreme variation of a trait is favored |
| disruptive selection | a change in gene frequency of a population where either extreme variation is favored (tends to eliminate intermediate form) |
| geographic isolation | physical barrier divides a population (fire, flood) |
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