IO112 Spring 2024 Exam 1 Terms

radiometric dating ,radiocarbon dating,potassium-40 dating, half-life, punctuated equilibrium, Cambrian explosion, macroevolution, microevolution, Linnaeus, Lamarck,Cuvier,Lyell and Hutton,Malthus,descent with modification,selective breeding The process of humans intentionally selecting a few organisms with desired traits to serve as parents of the next generation, over time producing organisms with altered characteristics species a group of related organisms sharing a distinctive form. If sexually reproducing, individuals can interbreed to produce viable, fertile offspring. vestigial structures remnant of a structure that may have had an important function in a species' ancestors, but is suggested to have no clear function in the modern species. homology Similarity in structural, embryological or DNA or RNA sequence characteristics attributed to shared ancestry. anatomical homology similar body structures among different species attributed to a common ancestor with that feature developmental homology similarities in the development of embryos between different species that share a common ancestor genetic homology Similarities in DNA sequences or amino acid sequences that are due to inheritance from a common ancestor. analogy similar structures that are proposed to have arisen due to similar selective pressures rather than inheritance from a common ancestor with that structure....