Darwin's term for selective breeding was called...
What is artificial selection?
100
This scientist came up with the 4 principles of natural selection to explain how evolution works.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
The term that is used to describe anatomically similar structures with different functions, inherited from a common ancestor.
What are homologous structures?
100
Name the type of evidence for evolution that deals with comparing organisms DNA to show how genetically similar or different they are.
What is Comparative Biochemistry?
100
What types of adaptations would an animal need to make if it were living in a Tundra biome?
What is fur, blubber, able to go long periods of time without food, claws to dig through ice, white in color to blend in?
200
Once Darwin witnessed artifical selection, he was able to infer this.
What is that it was possible that a similar process may also work in nature.
200
Sea turtles laying hundreds of eggs is an example of which of the 4 principles of natural selection?
What is overproduction?
200
A functioning structure in one species that is smaller or less functional in a closely related species is called...
What is a vestigial structure?
200
Explain how comparative embryology provides evidence for evolution.
What is it compares the developmental stages of different species to see how closely related they are?
200
What type of adaptation does a flounder exhibit?
What is camouflage?
300
This is the name of Darwin's theory that explains how evolution works.
What is natural selection?
300
A male ant eater with the longest tongue increases it's mating chances with a female ant eater. This example exhibits which of the 4 principles of natural selection?
What is reproductive advantage/competition/reproductive success?
300
Structures that look different, but have similar functions and are not inherited from a common ancestor are called...
What are analogous structures?
300
This is one of the 4 main categories to provide evidence for evolution that Darwin did not have access to at the time.
What is Comparative Biochemistry?
300
Name the 2 types of adaptations we discussed in class and give examples of each.
What are structural and behavioral?
Behavioral: bower bird mating rituals
Structural: king snake, viceroy butterfly
400
Natural selection means...
What is organisms that are best adapted for their environment will be the ones to survive and pass on desirable traits to the next generation?
400
Some of my marigolds produce more flowers than others. This example shows which of the 4 principles of natural selection?
What is variation? (Individuals in a population show variations among others of the same species)
400
The type of adaptation that allows an organism to blend into its' surroundings is known as...(Ex. flounder)
What is camouflage?
400
The Fossil Record provides evidence for evolution by...
What is by showing how ancient species are similar to current species, also by being a source of info to determine the ancestry of organisms and providing patterns of evolution?
400
What type of adaptation does a king snake exhibit?
What is mimicry?
500
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is based on these 4 principles...
What is variation, heritability, overproduction, reproductive advantage?
500
List the 4 principles of natural selection and draw a picture to explain each one.
What is 1) Variation 2) Heritability (variations are inherited from parents) 3) Overproduction 4) Reproductive Advantage
500
The viceroy butterfly exhibits what type adaptation when it looks like a poisonous monarch butterfly?
What is mimicry?
500
List the 4 main categories for the evidence of evolution. Draw a picture next to each to describe it.
What is the fossil record, comparative biochemistry, comparative anatomy, and comparative embryology?
500
How are mimicry and camouflage different?
What is camouflage is a structural adaptation for an animal to blend into it's environment and mimcry is when an animal looks like a poisonous animal so that predators will avoid them?
Both adaptations to avoid predation and increase survival.