Cambrian Explosion - The rapid diversification of multicellular animal life around the beginning of the Cambrian Period, resulting in the appearance of almost all modern animal phyla.
Carrying Capacity - Ecology The maximum number of individuals that a given environment can support without detrimental effects.
Catastrophism - Also called neo-catastrophism a modern doctrine that the gradual evolutionary processes shaping the earth have been supplemented in the past by the effects of huge natural catastrophes.
Cenozoic Epoch – The current era of the Earth. 65.5 million years to present day.
Chromosomes - A threadlike linear strand of DNA and associated proteins in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells that carries the genes and functions in the transmission of hereditary information.
Clade - A group of organisms, such as a species, whose members share homologous features derived from a common ancestor.
Class - A taxonomic category of organisms ranking above an order and below a phylum or division. In modern taxonomic schemes.
Continental Drift - A theory stating that the Earth's continents have been joined together and have moved away from each other at different times in the Earth's history. The theory was first proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. While his general idea of continental movement eventually became widely accepted, his explanation for the mechanism of the movement has been supplanted by the theory of plant tectonics.
Creationism - Belief in the literal interpretation of the account of the creation of the universe and of all living things related in the Bible.
Cro-Magnon - An early form of modern human (Homo sapiens) inhabiting Europe in the late Paleolithic Period and characterized by a broad face and tall stature. It is known from skeletal remains first found in the Cro-Magnon cave in southern France.
Cryptic - Animals tending to conceal by disguising or camouflaging the shape.
Carrying Capacity - Ecology The maximum number of individuals that a given environment can support without detrimental effects.
Catastrophism - Also called neo-catastrophism a modern doctrine that the gradual evolutionary processes shaping the earth have been supplemented in the past by the effects of huge natural catastrophes.
Cenozoic Epoch – The current era of the Earth. 65.5 million years to present day.
Chromosomes - A threadlike linear strand of DNA and associated proteins in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells that carries the genes and functions in the transmission of hereditary information.
Clade - A group of organisms, such as a species, whose members share homologous features derived from a common ancestor.
Class - A taxonomic category of organisms ranking above an order and below a phylum or division. In modern taxonomic schemes.
Continental Drift - A theory stating that the Earth's continents have been joined together and have moved away from each other at different times in the Earth's history. The theory was first proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. While his general idea of continental movement eventually became widely accepted, his explanation for the mechanism of the movement has been supplanted by the theory of plant tectonics.
Creationism - Belief in the literal interpretation of the account of the creation of the universe and of all living things related in the Bible.
Cro-Magnon - An early form of modern human (Homo sapiens) inhabiting Europe in the late Paleolithic Period and characterized by a broad face and tall stature. It is known from skeletal remains first found in the Cro-Magnon cave in southern France.
Cryptic - Animals tending to conceal by disguising or camouflaging the shape.