104 Unit 2 Review
Across
- 5. The type of speciation that results from a geographic barrier.
- 6. When evolutionary forces result in similar structures in distantly related organisms.
- 7. The plant vascular tissue that moves water and minerals.
- 10. A split in a branch of a phylogenetic tree.
- 12. This group of organisms is more closely related to animals than to plants (though we tend to group them with plants more often).
- 14. The waxy covering of plants and arthropods that reduces water loss.
- 19. The molecules that plants use to absorb light.
- 22. ____________ extinct is when the
- 23. Almost all animals have _________ digestion.
- 24. The accidental inclusion of extra chromosomes during meiosis.
- 27. Chordates have various external _________, like tails and limbs.
- 28. Chordates have a dorsal supporting rod, called a _________.
- 29. Humans, our ancestors, and related species.
- 31. The _____________ species concept states that individuals that reproduce only with each other are the same species.
- 32. The male gametophyte that protects sperm and keeps it from drying out.
- 33. The era before recent times, during which there were several periods of glaciation.
- 34. The opposite of extinct.
- 35. is present but no longer performing its function in the ecosystem.
- 37. The product of photosynthesis that fluctuates in the atmosphere over time.
- 38. A shared derived trait.
- 39. The vertebrae and abdominal muscles of humans are examples of this feature of animal body plans.
Down
- 1. The evolutionary history of relationships among organisms.
- 2. The group of animals that have backbones.
- 3. The part of the flowering plants that surrounds the seed and aids in dispersal.
- 4. The group of plants known as the "naked seed" plants.
- 8. The ____________ species concept states that individuals that look alike are the same species.
- 9. The ________ environment of Earth plays a large role in the evolution of life.
- 11. A major advantage that humans have (walking on two legs).
- 13. The type of monkeys that have prehensile tails.
- 15. A major branch of the tree of life, along with archaea and eukarya.
- 16. The __________ extinction is called the "sixth extinction"--the one humans are creating.
- 17. The first hominin to leave Africa.
- 18. ___________ traits are traits that result from convergent evolution.
- 19. The simplest explanation is the likely explanation.
- 20. The name for the clades of eukaryotes that are not plants, animals, or fungi.
- 21. The type of symmetry when the animal can be cut into two equal halves along a single plane.
- 25. The plant vascular tissue that moves the products of photosynthesis.
- 26. The group of plants known as the flowering plants.
- 30. The ______-finned fishes were the first to move onto land.
- 36. The type of speciation that occurs in the absence of a physical barrier.