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Flashcards by Fatima Hilal, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Fatima Hilal
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| Question | Answer |
| {4.1} Q 1: what is a species? | A species is the smallest unit of biological classification. |
| {4.1} Q 2: what do you have to look for to determine a species? | The things you have to consider when looking to determine a species are structural ecological and DNA evidence . |
| {4.1} Q 3: what are hybrids? | Hybrids are offspring's of different species . |
| {4.1} Q 4: what is the process of creating a hybrid called and what problems do they face? | The process of creating a hybrid is called hybridisation and the problems they face is health problems and in-fertilisation. |
| {4.1} Q 5: what is the science of classifying organisms known as ? | The science of classifying organisms is known as taxonomy. |
| {4.1} Q 6: what is the meaning of Linnaean classification? | The definition of Linnaean classification is A way of organising living things, In biology plants and animals have traditionally been classified by the structure of their bodies, in a descending hierarchy of categories: kingdom, class, order, family, genus, and species. |
| {4.1} Q 7: what is the meaning of morphology? | Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms. |
| {4.1} Q 8: what is evolution ? | Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. |
| {4.1} Q 9: what is a generation ? | A generation is the time between the birth of an individual and when that individual produces their own offspring . |
| {4.1} Q 10: how do many scientists see evolution ? | Many early scientist saw evolution as an improvement of species resulting in increasingly complex species with humans being the most complex . |
| {4.1} Q 11: what influences whether a species becomes more or less complex ? | It depends on the characteristics the species needs in order to survive its environment. |
| {4.1} Q 12: who is Charles Darwin ? | English biologist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. |
| {4.1} Q 13: what was Charles Darwin's book [The voyage of the beagle] about? | It was about the amazing variety of life he had seen including wild life in Australia. |
| {4.1} Q 14: what is bio-geography ? | Bio-geography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space . |
| {4.1} Q 15: who was Alfred Russel Wallace? | Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the leading biologists and explorers. He co-discovered with Charles Darwin the theory of evolution by natural selection, and he is one of the founders of the modern field of bio-geography. |
| {4.1} Q 16: what is artificial selection? | artificial selection is the breeding of plants and animals to produce desirable traits. |
| {4.1} Q 17: what is crossbreeding ? | known as producing an offspring particularly through mating two purebred individuals but from two different breeds . |
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