This person came up with the theory of natural selection.
Who is Darwin?
100
Thick fur and blubber are adaptations for this type of environment
What is a cold environment?
100
Humans share 25% DNA with rice and 50% with bananas. This means humans have a more recent common ancestor with _______.
What are bananas?
100
Between natural selection and evolution, this occurs over a longer period of time.
What is evolution?
100
This theory says that those with favorable traits will survive and pass them on to their offspring.
What is natural selection?
200
Polar bears vary in the gene for coat thickness, some have long fur and others short. Which are more likely to survive and reproduce?
What are thick furred?
200
This is what happens to species that cannot adapt to a changing environment.
What is extinction?
200
Scientists find these buried in the ground and use them as evidence for evolution
What are fossils?
200
This person came up with the theory of acquired characteristics.
Who is Lamarck?
200
The oldest fossils are found here.
What is deeper/lower?
300
In natural selection, the trait that does not favor the organism and lead to reproduction is selected _________.
What is against?
300
Storing water and limiting water use are adaptations for this type of environment.
What is a hot, dry environment?
300
What is an example of a structure in a whale that is no longer needed?
What is pelvis/femur?
300
If fish went extinct before lizards, we would expect to find lizards in (higher or lower) layers of sediment.
What is higher?
300
This type of dating involves comparing the age of fossils as opposed to knowing their actual age.
What is relative?
400
In peppered moths there is variation in color, some darker and some lighter. If trees in the area have lighter bark, natural selection will select for these colored moths.
What are lighter moths?
400
What are the two types of adaptations?
What are physical and behavioral?
400
These structures no longer have a function in an organism and suggest that evolution occurred.
What are vestigial structures?
400
These types of fossils show a change between very old ancestors and new species.
What are transition fossils?
400
This is a change in the DNA.
What is a mutation?
500
In humans sickle cell is a disease that causes lower respiratory function and other blood complications. This disease is very common over in Africa, as is Malaria. The trait for sickle cell has shown to cause resistance and immunity for Malaria. This shows that natural selection has selected (for or against?) sickle cell.
What is for?
500
Hibernation is an example of a _____________ adaptation.
What is behavioral?
500
These structures have similar structure and function suggesting a common ancestor.
What are homologous structures?
500
What theory says that organisms will develop traits to help them survive and then pass those traits to offspring?