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Evolution Vocabulary

Across
The trace of an organism from the past.
All the inhabitants of a particular ecosystem.
Era where members of every major animal group alive today evolved (544 to 248 million years ago).
The biological change in species over time.
Independent evolution of similar features in species.
Earliest forms of life evolved.
The observable change in allele frequencies of a population over a few generations.
Change in allele frequencies due to chance alone.
The dinosaur era (65-248 million years ago).
Down
Statistical analysis arising from the unrepresentativeness of the sample taken.
Factors explaining the discrepancy between variability.
Evolution of 2+ species from one ancestral species.
Inferred evolutionary relationships among various biological species.
The genetic drift that occurs after a small # of individuals colonize a new area.
The physical movement of alleles from one population to another.
The separation of a gene pool from the gene pools of other populations due to mutation.
A mutation that has no selective advantage or disadvantage.
Geologic time period that began 65 million years ago and continues today.
The collection of alleles found in all individuals of a population.
The rapid expansion of matter from a state of extremely high density and temperature.
The frequency with which a particular mutation appears in a population or the frequency with which any mutation appears in the whole genome of a population.
A group of organisms so similar to on another that they can breed and produce fertile offspring.
The measure of an organism's ability to survive.