evolution 1
The process in which a species has changed over time is known as this.
What is Evolution?
The ability of an individual to survive and reproduce is known as this.
What is Fitness?
Who is known as the Father of Evolution?
Who is Charles Darwin?
A mistake in the genetic code of a section of DNA is known as a ______________.
What is a mutation?
This is the name of the college I graduated from.
What is UNC Chapel Hill?
Similar structures that evolved from a common ancestor such as the bones humans, cats, bats, and whales all have in common.
What are homologous structures?
The "parent" species from which two or more separate species evolved.
What is a Common Ancestor?
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an Adaptation?
The vestigial hip bones of this ocean-dwelling animal are used as evidence that they evolved from land based ancestors similar to a hippopotamus.
What is a Whale?
My favorite sport.
What is Tennis?
The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful, and have the most babies.
What is Survival of the Fittest?
This is a type of structure that was once used in a species, but has since evolved to be of no real use.
What is a Vestigial Structure?
The concept of humans selecting desired traits in species.
What is Artificial Selection?
The term that refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring.
What is Natural Selection?
What is Thanksgiving?
The concept that members of each species are seeking the same food, space, and other necessities is known as this.
What is Competition?
The type of evidence for evolution that is supported by similarities in embryonic development.
What is Embryology?
The bottom layer of rock has the ______ fossils.
What is Oldest?
The theory that living things are produced from other living things.
What is Biogenesis?
My favorite animal.
What are Deer?
Evolution does not happen to an individual; it happens to a ______________.
What is Population?
Body parts in different species that perform the same function but evolved independently. For example, the wings of birds, bats, and insects.
What are Analogous Structures?
Over thousands of years, a population of birds becomes separated by mountains. The two groups adapt to different environments and can no longer reproduce with each other.
What is Speciation/Geographic Isolation?
Example of environmental conditions that could cause species numbers to decline.
What is a natural disaster, a drought, a disease, etc.
My favorite video game.
What is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?