Vocabulary
Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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The process by which species cease to exist
What is extinction?
100
Yellow beetle and green beetles live in the rainforest canopy. You would expect this population to increase:
What is the green population will increase and the yellow will decrease?
100
The vocabulary we use for "survival of the fittest"?
What is Natural Selection?
100
Bones or other structures in different organisms that are similar in shape and structure but serve a different purpose. -This indicates a common ancestor
What are homologous structures?
100
In an arctic environment, which would survive longer: red foxes or white foxes?
What are White foxes?
200
The process by which new species originate and can no longer interbreed with others in the group
What is speciation?
200
What is most likely to happen to moth populations in the picture shown if they live in an area with trees that have light gray bark?
Dark moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population decreases.
200
Natural selection typically takes this amount of time
What is a Long time?
200
Farmers and horticulturalists bred broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and cabbage from the wild mustard plant through..
What is artificial selection?
200
A group of fish have been observed to show changes in mouth structure over many generations. What is this change a result of?
Fish adapting to the food source for survival.
300
A change in a gene that results in a new trait
What is a mutation?
300
Evidence of the changes in a species' physical characteristics over long geological periods can best be shown through a study of
What is the fossil record?
300
The process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits.
What is artificial selection?
300
You discover an organism that has a nucleus, photosynthesizes, and is single celled. What kingdom does it likely belong to?
What is Protist?
300
Variations that are favorable become known as _____________.
What is adaptation?
400
A TRAIT that helps an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
What is Adaptation?
400
What would happen if the environment changes drastically and no organisms have fitting adaptations?
What is a species could go extinct?
400
After traveling to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed a lot of variation among beak sizes in Finches. This variation was a result of:
Developing different adaptations in order to survive on particular islands, specific to foods they eat.
400
Can an organism "CHOOSE" to evolve and change?
No, organisms CANNOT CHOOSE to change their genes or traits!
400
Something that is in every single population
What is Variation?
500
In a population of mice there are tan and black mice. If the mice live in the environment on the right of the picture, this color will become most common and why
What is Black, because they are better camouflaged with the rocks?
500
What is a change or difference in offspring called?
What is a variation?
500
An organism is discovered that is multicellular, heterotrophic, and is able to move. What kingdom does it likely belong to?
What is animal?
500
Structures that remain in modern organisms from ancient relatives that no longer serve a purpose. Ex: Appendix and wisdom teeth?
What are Vestigial Structures?
500
Where Darwin's study the beaks of finches took place.
What is the Galapagos Islands?