Charles Darwin
The theory that Darwin created and studied.
What is Evolution?
A scientist who studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
All the genes of the members of a population.
What is the gene pool?
A type of evolution that occurs over geologic time.
What is macroevolution?
The formation of new species due to geographic isolation.
What is allopatric speciation?
The name of the ship which Charles Darwin made his voyage on.
What is the HMS Beagle?
Similar structures inherited from a common ancestor.
What is a homologous structure?
How many of each allele is found in each generation.
A type of evolution that happens over a short period of time.
What is microevolution?
The process in which new species evolve from a single ancestor at the same geographic location.
What is sympatric speciation?
The belief that traits developed later in life can be passed down to offspring.
What is Inheritance of Acquired Traits?
Similar structures in uncommon ancestors.
What are analogous structures?
A field of science that focuses on the evolution within a population.
What is population genetics?
A type of evolution that brings about small scale changes within a population.
What is microevolution?
The location in which Darwin studied finches.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
The scientist who first proposed the idea that the Earth is older than 6000 years.
Who is Charles Lyell?
Scientists who studied Darwin's finches.
Who are Peter and Rosemary Grant?
What are the four forces of evolution?
Mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection.
A type of evolution that is driven by genetic mutations and natural selection.
What is macroevolution?
The process in which humans breed plants and animals to have useful traits.
What is artificial selection?
The other scientist who had the same theory as Darwin, just didn't receive the credit.
Who is Alfred Wallace?
The study of similarities and differences between embryos of different species.
What is Comparative Embryology?
What are the five necessary criteria of the Hardy-Weinberg Theorem.
No mutation, no migration, very large population, mating is random, no natural selection.
The beginning of a new body structure of an animal is an example of.....
Macroevolution
Preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the past.
What are fossils?