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term macroevolution

The \________ refers to the sweeping changes in life on Earth as revealed by fossils of which the broad pattern of evolution is above the species level.

Miller

\________ conducted an experiment mimicking a volcanic explosion in addition to his classic 1953 research.

Radiometric dating

\________ and other methods can be used to estimate the ages of fossils.

Adaptive radiations

\________ have also occurred in groups of species that possessed significant evolutionary advances or colonized new areas with minimal competition from other creatures.

Plate tectonics

\________ describes the slow movement of continental plates through time, affecting the physical geography and climate of the Earth, resulting in extinctions in some groups and speciation in others.

fossil record

The \________ demonstrates how new groupings of creatures can emerge through the progressive alteration of preexisting ones.

Developmental genes

\________ influence species morphological differences through altering the rate, timing, and spatial patterns of change in an organism's shape as it develops into an adult.

Fossils of microbes

\________ that existed 3.5 billion years ago provide direct proof of life on early Earth.

Natural selection

\________ in a changing environment or species selection as a consequence of interactions between organisms and their present habitats can both generate evolutionary trends.

organic molecules

The abiotic (nonliving) synthesis of small \________, such as amino acids and nitrogenous bases.

Adaptive radiations

\________ that occurred after catastrophic extinctions resulted in significant increases in biological variety.

Chapter 25

The History of Life on Earth

The sum of these continuous interactions between creatures and their surroundings is enormous

It is via them that the mind-boggling divers are rea