Diversity • Different in living things. characteristics

• Scientist older than Darwin that believed that if organisms acquired a characteristic during their lifetime, it could be passed on to future generations.

Lamarck

= Living

thingsOrganisms

                                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                              

                                     

Theory developed by

explaining how the characteristics of a species can change over many generations so it is better suited to its environment.

Natural Selection

Charles Darwin

• Scientist who supported Darwin’s theory by experimenting with peppered moths.

H.B.D.Kettlewell

• that enable organisms to

• In order for organisms to survive they must be able to:

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Adaptations

Inherited featuressurvive

and produce offspring.

Hide from predators

Find prey

Reproduce and pass on suitable genes

Adaptations of Cranes

Camouflageadaptation that enables an organism to blend in with its environment.

• an adaptation in which one organism gains protection by

organism that predators avoid because of its undesirable smell, taste or sting.

Blister beetle larvae in the Mojave desert cluster into a shape that vaguely resemble a bee and -- possibly with the use of pheromones -- attract a male. They cling to him to be taken to the female, who takes them into her nests, where they feed

on her eggs and young.

Mimicry

looking like another type of

Appendages

• protruding parts of an organisms body.

Endangered Species

• A species that is near extinction and may not survive in the wild unless it is protected.

Extinction • Dying out of a species.

Vertebrate • an animal with a backbone:

• Birds

• Fish

• Reptiles

• Amphibians

• Mammals

Invertebrate

• an animal without a backbone

Carolus Linnaeus

• Swedish scientist

• Devised the scientific system

for classifying living things

according to their structure

and anatomy.

How do you properly write a scientific name?

 

Homo sapiens = human (words mean Wise Man)

• Rana pipiens = frog • A scientific name is made up of two words: Genus and Species  • Genus – example: Homo • (first letter is ALWAYS capitalized in first word) • Species- example: sapiens• ( first letter is ALWAYS lowercase in second word)• Both words are either underlined separately or

italicized.