Natural Selection
individuals best suited to compete, survive, and reproduce in their environment will pass on favorable traits.
What is Natural selection?
The ship Darwin sailed around the world.
What is the HMS Beagle?
The remains or imprints of a once living organism
What is a fossil?
The type of reproduction that produces variation in the offspring.
What is Sexual reproduction
Combined alleles of all individuals in a population is called
What is gene pool?
variation, overproduction, Reproduction, Adaption
What are the four principles of Natural Selection?
February 12, 1809
What is Darwin's birthday?
Structures that are similar in different species and that have been inherited from a common ancestor.
What are homologous structures?
A group of organisms that are closely related and can produce offspring
What is a species?
According to Darwin's theory of natural selection, the individuals that tend to survive are those that have...
What are variations best suited to the environment?
evolution happens through the process of
What is Natural selection?
The year On the Origin of Species was published.
What is 1859?
The type of birds that Darwin studied on the Galapagos Islands.
process by which chromosomes are duplicated and distributed to new cells
What is mitosis
to blend in with your environment as a way of protection
What is camouflage
When there are too many offspring for the resources available, it causes this.
What is competition?
This is where Darwin was from
What is England?
When all members of a species have died
What is extinction?
asexual, sexual
What is what are two types of reproduction
something that you are born knowing how to do it.
What is instinct
A piece of DNA that tells the body what to do, or what to look like
What is a gene?
The domestic animals Darwin studied in an effort to understand how evolution might occur.
What are pigeons?
Natural occurring difference within a species; the occurrence of heredity or non heredity differences between individuals in a population
What is variation?
Fossils, patterns of early development, similar body structure, and similarities in DNA and protein structures all provide evidence that ....
What is organisms have changed over time?
Individuals in a population that have a variation which gives them an advantage in their environment are more likely to ...