Change Over Time
How Does Evolution Happen?
Natural Selection in Action
Classification
Grab Bag
100
A characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
100
This is the scientist who proposed how evolution occurs.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
This is what happens if a species cannot adapt.
What is extinction?
100
This is the broadest level of classification
What is domain?
100
This is the kingdom for organisms that are usually green and get their food through photosynthesis.
What is plantae or plant?
200
A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
200
This is the idea that organisms better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less well adapted organisms
What is natural selection?
200
This is what you need to look at to determine if a particular trait is favorable or unfavorable to an organism.
What are environmental factors?
200
This is the science of describing, classifying, and naming organisms.
What is taxonomy?
200
This is the name of the ship that went on a 5 year voyage around the world and needed a naturalist.
What is the HMS Beagle
300
The process in which populations change over time.
What is evolution?
300
This is when people try to select plants or animals for breeding based on desired traits and is often used by farmers or breeders.
What is selective breeding?
300
This is a measure of how much individuals in a population differ genetically
What is genetic variation ?
300
This is the first part of a two part scientific name.
What is genus?
300
This is the most specific level of classification
What is species?
400
A group of individuals of the same species living in the same place.
What is population?
400
Starvation, disease, competition, and predation are four factors that limit what?
What is population growth?
400
This is a result of separation, adaptation, and reproductive isolation.
What is speciation or new species
400
This kingdom absorbs nutrients from substances in their surroundings.
What is Fungi?
400
This is used to show relationships between species.
What is a branching diagram or branching tree diagram.
500
Proof that organisms share this include similar DNA, anatomy, and embryos.
What is a common ancestor?
500
These are the four parts to natural selection.
What is overproduction, inherited variation, struggle to survive, and successful reproduction?
500
When there are many types of these there is high genetic variation but when there are a lot of the same of these, there is low genetic variation.
What are alleles?
500
These are the three domains.
What is archaea, bacteria, and eukarya?
500
This is the man who is the father of modern taxonomy.
Who is Carlolus Linnaeus?
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