Natural Selection
Genes and Proteins
Geologic History and Fossils
Mutations
Embryonic Similarities and Evolution
100
The process where organisms best fit for the environment are more likely to survive and reproduce
natural selection
100
Portion of DNA that determines traits
Gene
100
The oldest layer of rock is found at the....
bottom
100
Structural changes to genes
Mutations
100
The study of the structures of organisms and their parts.
Anatomy
200
A genetic characteristic that allows an organism to survive and reproduce
Adaptation
200
Many genes structured together
DNA or chromosome
200
Remains, impressions or traces of an organism that lived in the past
fossils
200
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Genetic mutations cause ___________ in the traits of organisms, which can be beneficial, harmful or neutral
variations
200
Similarities in the early developmental stages of different species indicate...
common ancestry
300
What did Darwin study on the Galapagos Islands?
Finches
300
Making proteins from RNA (changing the language)
Translation
300
Scientific law that states fossils located in deeper sediment layers are older than ones in layers closer to the surface
Law of Superposition
300
Type of mutation that shifts the bases to the left
Deletion
300
Changes that occur slowly over time.
Change in the gene pool of a species or population
Evolution
400
Name the 3 ways Natural Selection can occur
Genetic variation, Competition and Overproduction
400
A process that makes copies of DNA
Replication
400
The measurement to describe the timing and relationship of the events that have occurred throughout Earth's history
Geologic Time Scale
400
Type of mutation that causes an extra base within the protein sequence.
Insertion
400
Similar anatomical features in different species, even if they have different functions are called...
homologous structures
500
Double Jeopardy: Name the 2 ways that variations can happen
Genetic mutation and recombination of genes during reproduction (gene flow)
500
When cells make a copy of RNA from DNA (DNA is rewritten)
Transcription
500
Fossil used to define and identify specific geologic periods
Index Fossil
500
Name the types of mutations
Substitution (replacement), insertion and deletion
500
Double Jeopardy: Name the 3 homologies
Developmental, Molecular and Structural