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100
He was the first to publish
the idea of Evolution by Natural Selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
Refers to the variety of living things
What is Biodiversity
100
When organisms disappear from the earth
What is Extinction
100
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Charles Darwin
100
Formation of new species
What is Speciation
200
Change over time
What is Evolution
200
Nature selects a trait that increases an individual’s chance of mating
What is Sexual Selection (or natural selection)
200
Preserved remains of ancient organisms
What are Fossils
200
In biological terms, the organism that is most successful within its population is the one that produces the most _________.
surviving offspring
200
Where a species lives
What is Habitat?
300
Structures from ancestral forms that have no current function
What is Vestigial
300
Structures that are similar in anatomy but not in functionality
What is a Homologous Structure
300
A characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce
What is Adaption
300
A measure of an organisms success in survival and reproductive rates
What is Fitness?
300
What can be determined by observing the embryos shown in the diagram?
Comparative embryology
400
When people select organisms for the best traits
What is artificial selection (or selective breeding)?
400
A process by which evolution occurs
What is Natural selection
400
Changes in genetic material during sexual reproduction that result in offspring that look different from the parents
What are genetic mutations?
400
Fossils in deeper strata are older than fossils in shallow strata. True or false?
Based on the Law of Superposition, this statement is true.
400
The differences in the physical traits of organisms
What is variation
500
This is another term for Natural selection (a 4 word phrase)
What is The survival of the fittest
500
Diagram showing the evolutionary relationships between organisms.
What is a cladogram?
500
Evolution is genetic change in a population from generation to generation. True or False?
True
500
The ultimate source of genetic variation
What is genetic mutation
500
The bones in a human arm, cat leg, whale flipper and bat wing include similar structures. What evolutionary concept is this illustrating?
Homologous structures
600
It would be impossible to observe evolution in
a. a community
b. a population
c. an individual
d. a species
C
600
The most recent common ancestor for species O and P would be at position number ________
N
600
This drives evolution
environmental change
600
When a variation helps an organism survive and reproduce, it becomes a(n) __________.
Adaptation
600
A farmer selects the seeds from the best corn crops to replant. This is known as _________.
Artificial selection