Vocabulary
Any differences between the individuals in a species or groups of organisms of any species.
What is Variation?
In a moth species with two color morphs, dark and light, this morph is best suited to live in a light colored environment.
What is the light color morph?
The other name or description for Natural Selection.
What is Survival of the Fittest?
This is the driving force behind Artificial Selection.
What are Humans?
This is what happens to dark colored moths in a light colored environment.
What is Decline in number or die off?
Organisms adjusting behavior or physical traits to be more suited to their environment.
What is Adaptation?
Sometimes organisms are not suited to their environment. This organism is likely to...
What is Not Survive and Reproduce?
This type of selection could lead to males of some species developing colorful traits to attract mates.
What is Natural Selection?
This is the full name for GMOs.
What are Genetically Modified Organisms?
Brown beetle mutations do well in a dry environment while green beetles do well in a west or moist environment. What are these differences that lead to natural selection?
What are genetic variations?
Traits present in an individual due to characteristics passed down from parents
What are Inherited Traits?
This mutation is beneficial to organisms that live in environments with lots of trees.
What is being able to climb?
Having advantageous traits allows for this to happen.
What is survive and reproduce?
To get more meat in from chicken or cattle, or to get larger yield from crops.
What are reasons for Artificial Selection or GMOs?
Camels have long eyelashes for keeping out sand and a hump of fat to keep them from starving. This type of selection is driven by the environment.
What is Natural Selection?
Traits present in an individual due to environmental influences and not passed on to future generations.
What are Acquired Traits?
The levels of organization say that this is how organisms, species, and populations are related.
What is organisms make species which make populations?
Woolly mammoths had thick fur and became extinct when the climate changed and Ice Age ended. This is the reason that they died off.
What is not adapting to the environment fast enough or evolving?
Altering, Replacing, or removing a gene are ways this can be done.
What is Gene Therapy?
This type of selection is influenced by humans and is why camels with lighter colored fur have been used for carrying travelers so they reflect the sun and heat better.
What is Artificial Selection?
The process leading to differences in species and changes from other organisms over time. According to Darwin, it leads to evolution.
What is Natural Selection
These traits allow organisms to better survive in their environment.
What are Beneficial or Advantageous Traits?
These are required for Natural Selection. (Name at least two)
What are Variation, Heritability, Competition, Selective Pressure, and Adaptation?
The gene editing technology we learned about in our stations.
What is CRISPR?
This is what was mainly being selected for in our Battle of the Beaks Lab activity.
What is mouth parts or beak type?