Define It
Natural Selection
Darwin
Biogeography
Misc.
100

The physical appearance/expression of a gene

Phenotype

100

True or False: Individual with certain heritable characteristics survive and reproduce at lower rates than other individuals

False

100

What animal was Darwin most fascinated by?

Finches

100

The scientific study of the geographic distribution of species, provides evidence of evolution.

Biogeography

100

Where is your favorite SI leader from (HINT: I am your favorite SI leader!)

Houston, Texas

200

Any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics (phenotypes) of biological populations.

Evolution

200

The selective breeding of individuals with certain desired traits is called what?

Artificial Selection

200

Darwin hypothesized that species from South America had colonized the _________________ and speciated on the islands.

Galápagos Islands

200

The previous name of Earth's continents as one large continent

Pangea

200

Scientific Hypothesis must be ___________ and _____________

Testable, Falsifiable

300

Process by which individuals with favorable inherited traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than those with less favorable phenotypes.

Natural Selection

300

What was Darwin's first observation?

Members of a population often vary in their inherited traits.

300

What two fields did Darwin Study at Cambridge University?

Medicine and Theology

300

Species that are not found anywhere else in the world.

Endemic Species

300

What famous researcher/scientist married his first cousin, AND had 10 kids with her?

Charles Darwin

400

Anatomical resemblances that represent variations on a structural theme present in a common ancestor.

Homologous Structures

400

What are the four types of data that document the pattern of evolution?

 Direct observations, Homology, The fossil record, and biogeography

400

What was the title of Darwin's 1859 publication that started a "new era of biology"?

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

400

These kinds of traits arise when groups independently adapt to similar environments in similar ways

Analogous Traits

400

What must happen for a hypothesis to be considered a theory by a community of scientists?

It must be supported by many experiments and/or observations

500

Remnants of features that served important functions in an organism’s ancestors.

Vestigial Structures

500

What strain of bacteria, when exposed to methicillin, is more likely to survive and reproduce than its related non-resistant strains?

MRSA

500

What three observations did Darwin explain in The Origin of Species

The unity of life, The diversity of life, and the match between organisms and their environment

500

Provides evidence of the extinction of species, the origin of new groups, and changes within groups over time.

The Fossil Record

500

What is the name for organisms whose embryos develop in the uterus?

Eutherian

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