A chart that shows all of the possible combinations of traits that you could have gotten from your parents
What is a Punnett Square?
100
Takes a very long time; slowly; over many many years
What is gradual?
100
He thought that because giraffe's stretched their necks, their babies would be born with longer necks. He was wrong!
Who is LeMarck?
100
Charles Darwin
Who is credited with the Theory of Evolution?
100
Groups that look alike and can reproduce
What is a species?
200
Mrs. Post's son inherited the recessive gene for blonde hair from her family and the recessive gene for blonde hair from her husband's family. What color hair does Cannon have?
What is blonde?
200
The slow wearing away of structures on the earth's surface caused by water, wind or glaciers.
What is erosion?
200
Chickens, rabbits and humans all look alike at this stage of development.
What is embryo?
200
"Younger over older" is an example of
What is Law of Superposition
200
The study of heredity is called...
What is genetics?
300
Behaviors or traits that are learned or gotten from the environment (you're not born with them)
What are acquired traits?
300
Tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes are examples of
What are sudden events?
300
Rabbits are found in North America, Africa and Australia. This is an example of
What is geographic distribution?
300
The Origin of Species
What is the name of Charles Darwin's book?
300
Differences among individuals in a species.
What is variation?
400
A trait that is not expressed
What is recessive?
400
Happens gradually and wears away at earth's surfaces
What is erosion?
400
Survival of offspring that have favorable traits
What is natural selection?
400
Male birds have bright colors to attract a mate.
What is physical adaptation?
400
Where Charles Darwin did some of his most important work:
What is Galapagos Islands?
500
You inherited the SAME genes from each parent for a specific trait
What is homozygous
500
Magma intruded across many layers of rock resulting in new rock being formed.
What is crosscutting?
500
"Birds, fish, mammals" This is an example of
What is diversity?
500
This does NOT support the theory of evolution:
superposition
homologous body structures
geographic distribution
fossil record