Zusammenfassung der Ressource
B1.7
- Theories of evolution
- It is believed life began on earth
3 billion years ago
- Lamarck's theory
- Inheritances or acquired charateristics
- Organisms adapt in their
lifetime and pass their
adaptations into their
offspring.
- Fast/regular
change
- Not many people believed this
- Darwin's theroy
- Natural selection
- Change over a long time
- Accepting Darwin's ideas
- Gradually accepted because:
- People believed God
made the earth and
wanted to believe this
- Other scientists weren't convinced
- Little evidence
- He didn't know about genes,
these were discovered later
- He had some examples
such as finches
- Natural selction
- Individual organisms show
large variation because there
is differences in their genes
- Organisms compete for:
- Food
- Shelter
- Predators
- Mates
- The organisms best adapted to
the environment will survive
and breed
- Genes are passed
onto offspring
- A changed or new
gene is called a
mutation
- Classification and evolution
- Classification helps us see
how closely organisms are
related
- Largest groups are
called kingdoms.
Largest kingdoms:
- Animal kingdom
- Plant kingdom
- contains microoragnisms
- Smallest group is
called a species
- These organisms are very similar
- Evolutionary trees
can be drawn to she
relationships
- Ecological relationships tell us how
species have evolved together in an
environment