Darwin and Pals
Stuff happens...
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100
This is Darwin's book on evolution.....
What is "On the Origin of Species"?
100
Isolated populations evolve in different directions, creating different_______________
What are species?
100
Eye color is this type of trait....
What is an inherited trait?
100
This is where Darwin observed several species of tortoise....
Where are the Galapagos Islands?
100
Darwin and Wallace both drew a version of this......
What is the Tree of Life?
200
Darwin's theory of how species develop....  
What is natural selection?
200
Natural selection occurs when there are differences in _______________ among a population.
What is fitness?
200
Traits that organisms develop over time are known as these....
What are acquired traits?
200
Two separate species of squirrels are found in this place....
Where is the Grand Canyon?
200
Rate of evolution depends on how many of an organisms _________ have changed over a period of time.
What are genes?
300
He wrote the book entitled "Darwinism"
Who is Alfred Wallace?
300
This increases the chance that that some organisms will adapt and survive any major changes in the environment....
What is Diversity of Species?
300
Inherited traits are influenced by these....
What are genes?
300
Alfred Wallace was returning from this place when his boat caught fire.....
Where is South America?
300
When humans select which plants or animals to breed in order to pass on specific traits to the next generation it is called ______________
What is artificial selection?
400
Darwin spent many years studying the works of ___________________, _____________________, and _________________________.
Who are Lamarck, Lyell and Malthus?
400
The creation of a new species is called...
What is speciation?
400
These traits give animals an advantage over others....
What are beneficial traits?
400
The type of bird that Darwin discovered 13 species of in the Galapagos Islands....

What are finches?

400
The allele for sickle cell anemia is caused by a _________________ in the normal allele.
What is a mutation?
500
The year that Darwin's most famous book was published...
What is 1859?
500
This occurs when 2 groups from the same species stop mating because of something other than geographical or physical separation....
What is sympatric speciation?
500
Changes in this result in new traits....

What is DNA sequence?

500
This represents the relationships between different species and their common ancestors....
What is the evolutionary tree?
500

Stabilizing selection, Directional selection and Disruptive selection affect these....

What are phenotypes?
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