The Theory
Charles Darwin
Mechanisms of Evolution
Evidence
Wild Card
100
Something that can be inherited through genetic characteristics... means that everyone is different!
What is variation?
100
What was the name of the boat that Darwin sailed in?
What is The Beagle
100
In natural selection, this is the agent that "selects" for or against traits of an organism.
What is the environment?
100
An explanation of events in the natural world based on observations. Unlike a scientific law, this can be falsified or changed.
what is a Scientific Theory?
100

Any trace or remains of a once-living organism whose organic material has been replaced with minerals/vitamins due to pressure from layers of sediment.

What is a fossil?

200

3 "stool legs" of natural selection

What is variation, heredity, and diverse reproduction?

200

The theory that Darwin proposed

What is Natural Selection?

200

When species are linked evolutionarily

What is co-evolution?

200

The Cambrian explosion is an argument against evolution regarding this type of evidence

What is fossil succession?

200
Type of diagram that shows the relationship of organisms to their ancestors as well as common ancestry.
What is a phylogenetic/evolutionary tree?
300

Any kind of inherited trait that improves an organism's chances of survival and reproduction in a given environment.

What is an adaptation?

300

Darwin's theory that every creature on earth has descended from one common single-celled ancestor

What is the theory of universal common descent?

300

When the original population of rabbits is white but then dark or grey rabbits camouflage better and survive over white rabbits, this is an example of _______

What is disruptive/diversifying selection?
300

Name of the person who attempted to model the proposed Biogenetic Law: "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”

Who is Haeckel and his embryo drawings?

300
A group of the same organism that occupies a specific area in a specific time.
What is a population?
400

The process whereby organisms that have advantages survive and pass their genes onto their offspring.

What is natural selection?

400

What animals did Charles Darwin observe that helped lead him to his theory of evolution- and what did he notice about these animals?

What is either finches beaks mockingbirds beaks

400
Process using half lives of elements to date carbon-containing material.

What is radiocarbon dating?

400

same structure, different function

What is homologous structures?

400
The random appearance of a new trait in an organism.
What is a mutation?
500

the theory that living organisms come only from other living organisms

What is biogenesis?

500

the unnatural process that Darwin observed in England that helped inspire his understanding of the environment's role in natural selection

What is artificial selection or selective breeding of dogs?

500

When organisms in separate environments (ex: on different continents) originated from a common ancestor.

What is biogeography?

500

An argument in favor of evolution that suggests the greater the difference in the DNA, the longer the time since sharing a common ancestor

What is the molecular clock?

500

Term that is subject to change but that can encompass organisms within a 2% genetic difference margin, or organisms that can successfully reproduce together

What is a species?

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