The survival and reproduction of the organisms that are genetically best fit for their environment
What is the definition of Natural Selection?
100
This is one of the examples of adaptation
What is behavioral adaptation?
100
The hip bones of a dolphin and the tailbone of a human
What are Vestigial Structures?
100
The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is Fitness?
200
A theory (explanation) supported by evidence for how populations change over time
What is evolution?
200
The variety of dog and cat breeds that we have today are a product of _________ _____________.
What is Artificial Breeding (Selective Breeding)
200
A variation in an organism that helps it survive
What is Adaptation?
200
An example of a structure that is homologous to a cat’s paw.
What is a Dog’s paw, human arm, bat wing, whale flipper
200
The first set of organisms that lived on Earth
What is Bacteria?
300
Charles Darwin
Who is the father of Evolution?
300
The name of the islands where Darwin studied and gathered his evidence on Natural Selection
What are The Galapagos Islands?
300
An organism matches its surroundings in order to hide
What is Camouflage?
300
Body parts that share a common function but have a different structure
What is an analogous structure?
300
A group of organisms that look alike and can reproduce
What is a species?
400
Evolution can only occur is this is involved
What is Genetic Variety?
400
Lamarck said that organisms acquire traits during their lifetime and then pass them on to their offspring
How is the theory of natural selection different from Lamarck's theory?
400
An organism imitates an animal
What is Mimicry?
400
Two organisms share a large amount of similar DNA
What are siblings?
400
The appearance of autotrophs on earth is so important to life as we now know it
What is self-nourishment?
500
Two different organisms are alike, they share this in their bloodline
What is a Common Ancestor?
500
A little child catches a fly and pulls its wings off. The fly actually lives a better life, but does not pass its lack of wings on to its offspring because the loss of wings is an _________ _______.
What is an Acquired Trait?
500
The venom of the black mamba snake is an example of a type of adaptaion
What is an example of Physiological Adaptation?
500
In embryology, the embryos are very similar to each other
What is a common ancestor?
500
Why is the fossil record important?
the fossil record is evidence of past life and evolution. It shows how life has changed.