Early Study of Evolution
This is a group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?
This is the natural process by which something takes place.
What is a mechanism?
This is all of the fossils that have been discovered and what we have learned about them.
What is the fossil record?
This is the genetic makeup (letter combination) of an organism.
What is genotype?
This is a well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations and experimental results.
What is a scientific theory?
This is the process by which modern organisms descended from ancient organisms.
What is evolution?
This is the struggle among living things to get the necessary amount of food, water, and shelter.
What is competition?
This is a young organism that develops from a fertilized egg.
What is an embryo?
This is the physical appearance, or visible traits, of an organism.
What is phenotype?
This is any change to the genetic material.
What is a mutation?
These are the preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
What are fossils?
In this type of selection, only individuals with a desired trait are bred by humans in hopes that the next generation will inherit the desired trait.
What is artificial selection?
These are similar structures that related species have inherited from a common ancestor.
What are homologous structures?
This is an allele whose trait always shows up in an organism when the allele is present.
What is a dominant allele?
A single-celled organism evolving into a fish is an example of this type of evoltion.
What is macroevolution?
He is known as the Father of Evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This is the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the same species.
What is natural selection?
This is when a species no longer exists and will never again live on Earth.
What is extinction?
This is an allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present.
What is a recessive allele?
Sheep evolving curly wool is an example of this type of evolution.
What is microevolution?
This is an inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
These are the three factors that affect the process of natural selection?
What are overproduction, variation, and competition?
These are the two types of fossils.
What are body fossils and trace fossils?
When an organism is a hybrid, Bb, it is called this.
What is heterozygous?
Name four people, other than Darwin, whose work contributed to the study of evolution.
Who are Linnaeus, Lamarck, Lyell, and Anning?