Bio 102 brewton - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

climate change - any substantial change in the climate that lasts for an extended period of time ecosystem - the living and nonliving components of an environment habitat - the physical environment where an organism lives and to which it is adapted biome - a large geographic area defined by its characteristic plant like, which in turn is determined by temperature and levels of moisture greenhouse effect - the normal process by which heat is radiated from Earth's surface and trapped by gas...

Do populations evolve on purpose? Is evolution goal-oriented? Explain - Evolution is not Goal oriented!!! Mutations and adaptations happen if those alleles happen to be present, if the genes needed to survive are not present within that population, the population will die. Who was Charles Darwin, and why is he in every Biology textbook? - -Naturalist who took a trip to the Galápagos Islands -Observed similarities between living and fossil organisms. -Charles was the first to propose the i...