The Theory
Charles Darwin
Mechanisms of Evolution
Vocab
Wild Card
100
Something that can be inherited through genetic characteristics... means that everyone is different!
What is variation?
100
Where was Charles Darwin from?
What is England?
100
In natural selection, this is the agent that "selects" for or against traits of an organism.
What is the environment?
100
the vocab word that means change through time. The theory that existing life forms have evolved from earler forms over long periods of time.
What is evolution?
100
Any trace or remains of a once-living organsim that has been preserved by natural processes.
What is a fossil?
200
Organisms often have more ____________ than will survive.
What is offspring?
200

Where did Charles Darwin travel to where he observed variation within the finch species population?

What is the Galapagos Islands

200
Any kind of inherited trait that improves an organism's chances of survival and reproduction in a given environment.
What is an adaptation?
200
animals that have certain beneficial traits will survive better over time- survival of the best adapted- nature determines who will "win"
What is natural selection
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
When organisms try to get their fair share of a limited amount of resources.
What is competition?
300

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 finches beaks.

300
Slang term that descibes how organisms that posess the best traits or adaptations for a particutlar environment are the ones that will successfully pass down their traits to their offspring.
What is "Survival of the Fittest?"
300

Structures that once served a purpose but no longer do. Give one example.

What is Vestigal Structures

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

Structures that are similar in function but different in structure. Give one example.

Structures that are similar in structure but different in function. 

What is Analogous Structures.

What is Homologous Structures. 

400

Give three examples of adaptations that we have NOT talked about in class. 

Many examples!

400
A group of genetically similar organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
400
The random appearance of a new trait in an organism.
What is a mutation?
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