Natural Selection
Adaptations
Evidence
Fossils
Vocab
100
When Living organisms have a large variety of different traits in a population
Variation
100
Darwin noticed that finches on islands with different food, had different what?
Beaks
100
Where do we find evidence for what extinct organisms looked like?
Fossils
100
Things change over time
Evolution
200
The environment selects the best organisms or traits to survive
Natural Selection
200
When industrial pollution darkened the trees what adaptation in Moths was best suited to survive
Dark gray or Black color.
200
What do we call similar body parts on dissimilar organisms that can be evidence for a common ancestor?
Homologous structures
200
Animals have more babies than can survive
Overproduction
300
What is producing many more offspring that can possibly survive?
Overproduction
300
What is found in every cell and a gives an organism its adaptations?
DNA
300
What evidence can you find for Evolution in the fetus of a Turtle and a Rabbit?
Similarities in early development
300
What is a change that helps an organism survive and reproduce?
Adaptation
400
In the famous White and Black Moth study, what were the factors that determined which moth was better suited?
The coal dust on the trees made Black moths blend in (camouflage) and the white trees made the white moths blend in. Birds ate the moths that didn't blend in
400
If you have plastic surgery, will your kids look like you before or after surgery? Why
Before surgery. Your DNA has the traits that you are BORN with
400
Evolution states that all organisms share a ________ that links us to a similar beginning
A common ancestor
400
A wooly mammoth was found fossilized in this substance.
Ice
400
Body parts that you Do NOT Need
Vestigial Structure
500
How long does it take for evolution to occur?
MANY generations
500
The 3 types of Adaptations and there definitions
What is Behavioral, Morphological and Physiological Adaptations Define:
500
Explain how Evolution plays a role in Diseases and Modern Medicine
What is the DNA of Disease causing bacteria/viruses will Mutate/Evolve to be resistant to medicine. We then have to create new medicines
500
Factors that restrict the # of organisms in a population
Limiting Factors
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