Who's Who
This man is considered the Father of Evolution
Charles Darwin
The letters representing the four base pairs in DNA.
A T G C
This theory states that traits are passed from parents to offspring.
Heredity
Mineral castings of ancient life forms
Fossils
The repeating subunits that create DNA
Base Pairs
This scientists uncovered genetic variation using pea plants
Gregor Mendel
The sides of the DNA ladder are deoxyribose and this group.
Phosphate group
When the environment acts as a filter for traits to pass on in a population.
Natural Selection
Similarities in similar organs of different species, even if the organ has a different function between the species.
Common Descent
The full name of DNA
DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
This ancient Greek proposed that life was on a ladder with dirt at the bottom, and the gods at the top.
Aristotle
What a genotype looks like.
Phenotype
When a gene miscopies and a new allele forms
Mutation
When a given fossil is closely related to extant fossils.
Law of Succession
This grid like tool helps in determining the phenotype of crossed genotypes
Punnett Squares
Offered a theory of evolution that stated acquired traits get passed on.
Lamarck
When one gene overwrites another to make a trait
Dominant
This form of selection is on purpose and by design.
Artificial Selection
Organs no longer used by a species, but the body still produces parts of.
Vestigial organs
This is the shape of DNA (scientific name)
Double helix
This scientist was in charge of taking the first picture of DNA's structure, but doesn't get credit for the discovery.
Dr. Rosalind Franklin
These plants always make plants that look like themselves
True-Breeding Plants
When members of two similar populations can no longer reproduce this is said to have occurred
Speciation
When a copying error in replicating DNA creates new traits
Mutation
Finches