Charles Darwin
This is the name of the ship Darwin Sailed on.
What is the HMS Beagle?
This term is defined as a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce.
What is an adaptation?
Farmers in Darwin's time used selective breeding to produce sheep with _____.
What is fine wool?
This is the disease that is rapidly killing off Kauai's native birds.
What is avian malaria?
This is the disease that is killing Hawaii's native Ohia trees.
What is Rapid Ohia Death?
This type of scientist is curious about the natural world.
What is a naturalist?
In natural selection, change is observed in a population over many _____.
What are generations?
Darwin himself bred _____ with large, fan-shaped tails.
What are pigeons?
The ancestor of Hawaii's native honeycreepers is thought to be a finch originally from this continent.
What is Asia?
The ancestor of Ohia was originally from this landmass/country.
What is Aotearoa (New Zealand)?
Darwin made important observations about the evolution of these three species in the Galapagos islands,
What are: tortoises, finches, iguanas?
This occurs in a population when there is a scarcity of food or other resources.
What is competition?
In selective breeding, nature is not selecting traits, instead traits are selected by ______.
What are humans?
This is the Hawaiian name of the Pacific Golden Plover, which migrates every year between Hawaii and Alaska.
The kahuli or native hawaii forest snail serves this important function for the Ohia tree.
What is eating mold off of leaves?
Darwin questioned the religious explanation for these two important unknowns.
This is the concept that most organisms produce wahy more offspring than can possibly survive.
What is overproduciton.
Example of selective breeding that we talked about at the beginning of the ethics of genetic engineering unit?
What are dogs/pugs?
This is the name of the bacteria scientists are using to infect male mosquitos and prevent mosquito reproduction.
What is Wolbachia?
This feature of some Ohia leaves increases their surface area and allows them to capture a lot of moisture from the air.
What is "pubsescence" i.e. presence of many fine hairs?
These are two genetic processes by which variation is increased in a population, something that Darwin did not know about in his time.
What are alleles (shuffling, sexual reproduction), and mutation of DNA?
Darwin published his book, The Origin of Species, in this year.
What is 1859?
Certain hybrids created through selective breeding are not considered species because they cannot ______.
If the geologic age of Hawaii is compressed to 12 hours, at what time did the first Polynesian people arrive in the islands?
What is 11:59:41?
This is the scientific name of an Ohia species, which contains latin words for "hard wood" and "many forms"
What is Metrosideros polymorpha?