Natural Selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
Scientist is credited with developing the theory of natural selection and therefore Evolution.
What species is named the “terrible lizard”?
Dinosaurs
How do we know there were different once-living organisms?
Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of these.
Why is Donald Trump?
That is the correct response
What is DNA?
Molecules that carry hereditary information.
What does surviving and reproducing have to do with Natural Selection?
Natural selection favors traits that help organisms survive and reproduce in an environment where they have advantages.
What is Triceratops?
Three horned dinosaur.
What is a trace fossil?
A fossilized footprint is an example of this type of fossil.
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What changes DNA?
Mutations introduce new variations into a population by doing this to the genetic code.
What is genetic variation?
This term describes differences among individuals in a population, which natural selection acts upon.
Who are the ancestors of birds?
Dinosuars
How do we determine the relative age of rocks in the history of life on Earth?
Fossils from different layers of rock are used to determine this about Earth’s past
When is Wednesday?
Before Thursday
What is meiosis?
Cell division process that creates genetic variation in gametes for sexual reproduction.
What is artificial selection? (Hint: as different from Natural Selection)
When humans breed animals for specific traits, this type of selection is occurring.
What is Brontosaurus?
Massive long-necked dinosaur, whose name means “thunder lizard,” was a sauropod.
What is a Trilobite?
Successfull shelled organism that lived from 450 million years to the Permian Triassic Extinction event.
What can you by at the New Dehli
A pashmina scarf
What is a gene pool?
The combination of all the different versions of a gene in a population.
What factors help survival or reproductive success?
If an organism can succeed in an environment by getting more food, or escaping predators or being a better predator.
What major event happened 66 million years ago?
The asteroid impact thought to have caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs happened approximately this many million years ago.
What is Paleontology?
The study of fossils.
Where are old?
That is the correct response
What is a diversity of traits
Genetic variation essential for natural selection to act on.