This scientist believed Earth was very old and developed the idea of deep time. He developed the theory of gradualism.
Who is James Hutton?
100
Darwin took a 5 year voyage as a ship naturalist on this ship.
What is the HMS Beagle?
100
The mechanism for evolution by which organisms with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring is called this.
What is natural selection?
100
This explains patterns of distribution of living and fossil species and tell how modern organisms evolved from their ancestors.
What is biogeography?
100
This is how DNA and RNA provide evidence for common descent.
What is the universal genetic code shows how all organisms evolved from an ancient common ancestor?
200
This scientist expanded Hutton's ideas and argued that the processes which shape Earth today happened in the past. He expanded gradualism and formed the theory of uniformitarianism.
Who is Charles Lyell?
200
These were variations Darwin observed in tortoises.
What is shell shape and neck length?
200
This describes how well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is fitness?
200
Recent fossils have formed connections and show the evolution of modern species. These fossils are called this.
What is transition fossils?
200
The Grants witnessed this in 1977-78 in the Galapagos Islands while studying finches.
What is natural selection of beak depths due to food source change?
300
This scientist suggested that organisms could change during their lifetimes by selectively using or not using various parts of their bodies. He also suggested that the individuals could pass these acquired traits on to their offspring.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
300
Darwin noticed that finches varied in the Galapagos Islands in beak size and shape and attributed these differences to this.
What are food sources?
300
This idea states that all species, living and extinct, are descended from ancient common ancestors.
What is common descent?
300
These structures are similar in different species but have different functions.
What is homologous structures?
300
These three organisms have the following genetic code:
Mouse: CAGAAATG
Baleen Whale: CCGAAAT
Chicken: AAATGCC
These two are most closely related.
What is the mouse and baleen whale?
400
This economist reasoned that if the human population grew unchecked, there wouldn't be enough living space and food for everyone.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
400
These are what Darwin found high in the Andes Mountains.
What are marine life fossils?
400
Conditions for Natural Selection include: struggle for existence, variation and adaptation and this.
What is survival of the fittest?
400
A dragon fly wing and bird wing are an example of these kind of structures.
What is analogous structures?
400
The hipbone in a snake is an example of this.
What is vestigial structures?
500
This scientist had the same ideas as Darwin, but was studying in Malaysia at the time. He was almost ready to publish his findings until Darwin swiftly published his book.
Who is Wallace?
500
Darwin found a fossil of a Glypotodant, which is a giant armadillo. This is what he concluded from his observations.
What is extinct organisms resemble modern species?
500
In a forest floor environment, brown rabbits survive better than white ones. This would happen in the winter where it snows.
What is white rabbits would survive better for that season?
500
This is how vestigial structures show evolution.
What is they show that the organism is related to a common ancestor by the fact that they have the structure even though they don't use it anymore?
500
This shows similar patterns of embryological development and provides further evidence that organisms descended from a common ancestor.