Family Ties
Those Dudes
Island Exploration
Name That Structure!
Glow up
100
The process in which a species has changed over time is known as this.
What is evolution?
100
He is known as the Father of Evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
Being able to blend in with your environment.
camouflage
100
This type of vestigial structure is found in our digestive system. This organ used to be used to digest cellulose for our ancient ancestors.
What is the appendix?
100
A mistake or change that occurs in the DNA sequence is called a ______________________.
What is a mutation?
200
A group of organisms that are similar enough to produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
200
He created the classification system scientists use today.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
200
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an adaptation?
200
Populations that are more likely to survive a changing environment need to have lots of ...
variations
200
is the exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes that results in recombinant chromosomes. occurs during Meiosis I.
What is crossing over?
300
Preserved remains of ancient organisms
What are fossils?
300
Who proposed that species shared ancestors rather than arising separately.
Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
300
This is the name of this group of Islands.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
300
Similar structures that evolved from a common ancestor such as bones humans, cats, bats, and whales have in common.
What are Homologous Structures?
300
Some species produce more offspring than can possibly survive in an environment to ensure that some will.
What is overproduction?
400
The study of early development.
What is Embryology?
400
Who proposed that environmental change leads to use or disuse of a structure.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
400
The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful
What is survival of the fittest?
400
Body structures that have the same function and different structures
What are Analogous Structures?
400
Selection based on man made manipulation
What is artificial selection?
500
When an organism completely dies out.
What is Extinction?
500
The grandfather of our main guy, he said that more-complex forms developed from less-complex forms.
Who is Erasmus Darwin?
500
Observable changing of land structures over time led to this view of geological change.
What is gradualism?
500
Organs/ structures that no longer serve a purpose and have disappeared or reduced in size.
Vestigial Organs/Structures
500
The process in which nature determines which individuals/adaptations survive is known as this.
What is natural selection?
600
Evolutionists believe that similar organisms evolved from a(n)
What is common ancestors?
600
Created the Special Theory of Relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
600
While in the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed that the Finches' beak shape had evolved based on the...
food source
600
An example would include whale fins and raccoon hands.
What are homologous structures?
600
The outcome of an adaptation that becomes a staple of a species.
What is descent with modification?