Bio
The year 1809
What is the year Darwin was born?
The change in inherited traits of a population over many generations
What is evolution?
HMS Beagle
What is the name of the ship Darwin sailed on?
The physical characteristics
What is the phenotype?
natural selection
What is evolution caused by?
The town of Shrewsbury, England
What town was Darwin born in?
The process by which individuals that are better adapted to the environment will survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
The ship's naturalist
What is the job Darwin had on the HMS Beagle?
flower color or tail length
What are examples of variations?
Determines which traits are beneficial and which are not
What is natural selection?
The University of Edinburg
Where did Darwin study medicine?
species produce more offspring than can survive
What is overproduction?
Galapagos Islands
What is Darwin's most well known stop?
How common a certain allele is in a population
What is allele frequency?
Occurs in populations, not individuals
What is evolution by natural selection?
The year 1828
What is the year Darwin dropped out of Edinburg?
a difference between individuals of the same species
Finch birds
What is the type of bird Darwin studied?
people, not nature, are selecting desired traits
What is artificial selection?
Can be introduced through gene mutations, movement between populations, new gene combinations.
What are variations?
The year 1831
What is the year Darwin graduated college?
Food and other resources are limited - the members of a species compete with each other to survive.
What is competition?
The Origin of Species
A process that can be observed, measured, tested
What is natural selection?
overproduction, variations, competition
What are the factors that affect natural selection?