Vocabulary
This is a favorable trait that helps organisms survive and reproduce
What is Adaptations
What does the V stand for in the VIDA chart?
What is Variation
What classifies a group of animals as the same species
What is having a fertile offspring
This feature has the same structure but not the same function in related species
What is a Homologous structure
These features buried deep in the ground can give scientists a clue as to how organisms evolved over time
What is a Fossil
The process where adaptations lead to winners and losers
That is Natural Selection
What does the D stand for in the VIDA chart?
What is Differentiated survival
This is the separation of a species through geographical isolation (they are on separate islands)
What is Allopatric speciation
This feature has the same function but not the same structure in unrelated species.
What is an Analogous structure
Scientists use a lot of evidence from the past. This is not the only evidence that they can use. We saw the finches beaks change over a short period of time. What is this type of evidence called?
What is Direct observation
This structure shows common features between organisms and how closely that are related
What is a Cladogram
When looking at a population of mice, one morph has white fur and the other has dark fur. The environment that they live in is dark in coloration. What would you state in the A box of the VIDA chart.
What is the adaptation of the mice is there will be more black mice.
This is when species are driven into different resource use through competition
What is Niche Partitioning
This structure used to have a similar function and structure that was shared between related species but now it has no function
What is a Vestigial structure
Every living thing shares a certain percentage of this, however, closer related species share more.
What is DNA
This word describes the evolution of similar characteristics between two unrelated species
What is Convergent Evolution
A population of rabbits have either long legs or short legs. However, a wolf has been catching all of the short legged rabbits. What would you put in the V section of the VIDA chart?
What is long or short legs
What is Sympatric speciation
When species fully mature they appear to be very different. This difference is not seen as clearly during this stage of life.
What is an Embryo
This word describes that evolution of different characteristics between two related species
What is Divergent Evolution
Geographical, Behavioral, Physiological, or Genetic barriers are all examples of what?
Reproductive Isolation