Biology 11 Ms. Jamieson
Questions
1) Write the meanings of the following terms:
a) Adaptation
b) Evolution
c) Population
d) Fossil
e) Species
2) Why is evolution such an important scientific concept?
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Chapter 2 – Adaptation and Change Read pages 60 – 67, and answer the following questions:
Examples to illustrate your answers
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an inherited trait or set of traits that improve the chancs of survival and reproduction of oranisms
the process by which populations of living things change over a series of generations
a group of individuals of the same species occupying a given area at a certain time
a group of organisms that look alike and that can interbreed under natural conditions to producce fertile offspring
3) How are fossils formed?
4) What is the geological time scale?
5) What is the Burgess Shale, and where is it?
6) How old are the fossils in the Burgess Shale, and what period in the Earth’s history do they belong to? (see Fig. 2.6 page 64)
7) Why is the Burgess Shale so important?
8) How is the Burgess Shale evidence of divergent evolution
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