what are 10 things i can learn about evolution?

Question

Its actually what i want to know

Answer 1

1. The principal of common descent shown by the universal genetic code.

2. The definition of heritable trait. The traits that are passed on are the only ones that apply.

3. Population variation as source of traits favored or disfavored in natural selection.

4. Mutation as a source of variation.

5. Mendelian genetics

6. Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

7. The structure of chromosomes and genetic reassortment by crossing over.

8. The molecular basis of mutation.

9. Understanding degrees of relationship, taxonomy, and the phylogenetic tree.

10. The concept of genetic homology, the molecular phylogenetic tree, and the molecular clock.

Answer 2

Evolution = the theory of development where less advanced creatures become more advanced and specialized by the needs of their environment. For example a species of finch has developed that has a longer beak allowing it to get into deeper nooks and crannies to get more seed. This makes it a successful adaptation and survival strategy.

Natural selection is evolution in action. An animal or plant inherits traits from the parent (yes plants have female and male sexual organs too). Those that allow it to survive longer or to fill and exploit a new niche are passed on because the creature has a better chance of passing on its genes. This is often done through a process of mutation (random change) or variation (change through natural selection). Either way the new species variant survives and does well or path is a dead end and the variant dies out before it has a chance to reproduce and so pass on its genes.

As far as we know a species uses genes to pass on these changes. The animals that use sex to reproduce have chromosomes that carry the genes and combine is specific patterns. The genes are made out of DNA, a very complex molecule.

Natural selection through mutation or selection
Creates improvement in the species.
Is conducted by genes, but other things are taking place that we don’t know all about.
Conducted by Chromosomes, which use genes, which are composed of DNA.
Key ideas:
- Adaptation like that finch adaptation I pointed out.
- Co-Evolution when one species adaptations forces another species to adapt; like predators having to become better hunters to catch faster prey.
- Cooperation when one or more species adapt to work together; like the bacteria in our gut
- Specialization where improvement in a way to do things allows a species to live better; insects are the best at this.
- Extinction; over 95% of the species that have every lived are now extinct.
- Common descent, common origin; at one time we were all slimes and molds that turned into all the different species we know of today, or ever knew of.
- Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both came up with the theory that was outlined in Charles Darwin’s book “The Origin of Species.”
- Genetic Drift allows a species to change its evolution and actually de-evolve. Dolphins and whales came from the sea, developed legs and went back to the sea turning those legs into fins.
- Too much change creates hybrids which are sterile, like a horse and a donkey breed to create a mule that cannot reproduce.

For more read this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

Answer 3

Zero denotions such as survival, selections and change. These concepts are the conerstones and subject to a similar subconscious matter such as the concept of zero.

Then there's adaptation, descent and dispersion. These are the machinations or the gears of evolution.

Other stuff include ecologies, symbiants, parasites, and successions in the evolutionary staircase. Finally you will learn that it is a concept that is universal in nature, and is applied to almost all branches of science from chemistry to physics and psychology.

Answer 4

1 to 10. Read Darwin's "The Origin of Species"