Biology Plant Diversity & Evolution Flashcards

Low plants, lacking vascular tissue:

One of the first plant groups to have vascular tissues and true roots:

Larger plants with vascular tissue, fronds, and sperm that swim:

Produce flowers and seeds:

Produce naked seeds in cones:

Sepals and petals are present:

Require water for fertilization to occur:

Produce spores for reproduction:

Produce naked seeds:

Able to conduct water up through the stem, often called conifers:

Pollination occurs:

Contain a stigma, style, and ovary:

One of the tallest plants living:

Adaptation that protects a living embryo:

Cotyledons provide energy for the newly developing organism:

Classified as nonvascular plants:

Liverworts and mosses belong to this group:

Group of plants that produce flowers:

Fruits are produced by this plant group:

Plants in this group have a symbiotic relationship with algae:

The bones labeled in the figure above are both:

Fossils found in the lowest geological strata are generally the most:

Critical to the theory of evolution, Darwin needed to include an idea that was not generally accepted by the scientists of society at that time. That idea was:

Urban rats have resisted effects to poison them out because they:

Which of the following evolve?

-Population

-Genera

-Kingdoms

-Individuals

Wings of insects and birds are result of convergent evolution. This means that:

The presence of vestigial organs supports evidence of evolution because:

The wing of a bird and the wing of an insect are:

When comparing chick and pig embryos, the similar eyes, pharyngeal pouches, and post-anal tails are evidence of:

Natural selection results in:

According to Darwin, natural selection is based on the ______ found in populations:

The fossil record is incomplete because:

The forelimbs of early mammals were similar in all features except:

New alleles arise by:

If the frequency of a recessive allele is 36 percent, the frequency of the dominant allele would be what percent?

A species is composed of:

Which of the following does not generate genetic variation within a population?

All of the genes and all of their associated alleles within a population represent the population's:

Dominance causes an allele to become more common:

In random mating, individuals choose the most attractive mate:

In the process of natural selection, individuals that are most fit are the ones that are most likely to reproduce:

Microevolution is the term that applies to small-scale changes over a long period of time:

Although Lamarck hypothesized that adaptations to the environment did occur, he also believed that offspring inherited characteristics acquired by their parents during their lifetime:

Lamarck's hypothesis has since been discredited by Darwin's theory of natural selection:

The observation that different geographical areas sometimes exhibit plant and animal communities of similar appearance, even though the individual plants and animals are not closely related, is called:

The key point in Darwin's proposal is that the ______ imposes the conditions that determine the direction of selection:

Natural selection, as a mechanism of evolution that, acts on variants within populations and ultimately leads to the evolution of different species was proposed by:

Darwin proposed that natural selection occurs in an environment by:

An insect population that becomes resistant to a commonly used insecticide is an example of ______