Mechanisms
An alteration in the DNA sequence of an organism.
What is a Mutation?
A theory (explanation) supported by evidence for how populations change over time.
What is the Theory of Evolution?
Charles Darwin
Who is the father of Evolution by Natural Selection?
When populations produce more offspring than can survive.
What is Overproduction?
The transfer of genetic material from one population to another.
What is Gene Flow?
A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
When individuals in a population differ from one another.
What is Variation?
The type of reproduction that produces tremendous genetic variation in offspring.
What is Sexual Reproduction? (Genetic Recombiination)
The level of ability an organism has to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is it's Fitness?
Darwin was a naturalist on this ship that traveled around the world in 1831.
What is the HMS Beagle?
Body parts that share a common function but have a different structure
What is an Analogous Structure?
When traits are passed down from parents to their children.
What is Heritability?
Random indiscriminate change in allelic frequencies in a population.
What is Genetic Drift?
A population, if left unchecked, will grow _____
What is Exponentially (with a J-curve)?
The name of the islands where Darwin studied and gathered his evidence on Natural Selection
What are The Galapagos Islands?
The study of plant and animal distribution around the world.
What is Biogeography?
When a trait helps an organism survive and have more offspring than other organisms.
What is Reproductive Advantage?
Evolution can only occur if this is involved.
What is random mutations that change the fitness of individuals?
Type of bird species Darwin noticed that has varying sizes of beaks as adaptations to what they ate.
What are Finches?
In embryology, when two embryos are very similar to each other they must have a shared ______ ______.
What is a shared Common Ancestor?
The book Darwin wrote that introduced the Theory of Evolution.
What is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"?