BIOEE 1780 Prelim 1 Exam Questions and answers ()

BIOEE 1780 Prelim 1 Exam Questions and answers () evolution - a process by which populations of organisms change over time science - the use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena as well as the organization of knowledge generated through the process viruses - smallest living things lineage - a chain of ancestors and their descendants natural selection - a mechanism that can lead to evolution; differential survival or reproduction of individuals causes some genetic types to replace (outcompete) others convergent evolution - the independent origin of similar traits in separate lineages homologous - characteristics are similar in two or more species because they are inherited from a common ancestor synapomorphy - a derived form of a trait that is shared by a group of related species; evolved in immediate common ancestor of the group and was inherited by all the descendants; phylogeny - a visual representation of the evolutionary history of populations, genes, or species mutations - any change in sequence of an organism viral reassortment - when genetic material from different strains gets mixed into new combinations within a single individual phenotypes - measurable aspects of organisms such as morphology, physiology and behavior Carl Linnaeus - father of modern taxonomy; organized all living things into a single hierarchy of groups called TAXA taxa - group of organisms that a taxonomist judges to be a taxonomic unit taxonomy - introduced by Carl Linnaeus; the science of describing, naming, and classifying species of living or fossil organisms