Evolution Vocabulary
relations of organisms
Stepping Stones to Evolution
Evolution Theory Contributors
Miscellaneous
100
A trait with a current functional role in the life of an organism that is maintained and evolved by means of natural selection.
What is Adaptation
100
It means they are closely related and have a very recent ancestor
What does it mean when the amino acid sequences are very alike?
100
Natural selection is survival of the best fit for the environment. What ever organisms has the best traits for the environment breed and pass them down. If they don't have good traits they die off.
What is natural selection
100
Who is the father of evolution
Who is Darwin
100
This Mr. Kitts first name
What is Kraig
200
An organism's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
What is Fitness
200
It means they have an ancestor very far back.
What does it mean when the amino acid sequences have very few similarities ?
200
Over time as the traits not fit die off and the traits fit stay in the gene pool the species changes over a long period of time.
How does natural selection lead to evolution?
200
Who said that population will be limited by famine, disease, and war.
Who is Malthus
200
This is the worst football team ever
What is Clemson
300
Descent with modification
What is Evolution
300
All animals are closely or distantly related.
What does Darwin's theory state about animals relations?
300
Mutations are when the genetics altered to change a trait in the organism
What are mutations ?
300
"The human race would be likely to overproduce if the population size was not kept under control."
What is Malthus
300
What is the graph used to measure population traits
What is bell curve
400
Similar structure within more than one species that have different functions.
What is homologous structure
400
The fossils we find and the acid sequences we collect show that someway everything is related
How do we know all organisms are related ?
400
It is the formation of random chromosomes in meiosis or when a random gene gets pulled in the gene pool that was not there before.
What is random assortment of genes?
400
Who studied finches in the Galapogos
What is Darwin
400
Was Darwin the first person do discover evolution
What is no
500
The organisms with the best traits to survive bread and sprees their traits but those traits also combine with the mate's traits so the more and more organisms breed the more complex they are
How do organisms get more complex over the years?
500
The Neanderthal
What is thought to be the closest relative to humans?
500
if an organisms gets a random gene or mutation that helps them survive they cam breed with another organism and pass down that muataion or random gene and it can keep getting passed down until it becomes where the majority of the organisms have that mutation or random gene.
How does random assortment of genes and mutations effect evolution?
500
Who said that the earth was very old.
Who is Lyell
500
This is a organisms that has the same structures but different functions
What is homologous structure
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