Early Study of Evolution
Natural Selection
The Process of Evolution
Evidence in the Fossil Record
Other Evidence of Evolution
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Who developed the first attempt at a scientific theory of evolution?

Jean-Baptiste Lamark 

100

What is the natural process by which something takes place?

Mechanism

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How well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment.

Fitness

100

documents the diversity of the life forms, many now extinct, and shows how life forms existed and changed throughout earth's history.

fossil record

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DNA is a complex ____.

Molecule

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What is change overtime or the process by which modern organisms had descended from ancient organisms.

Evolution

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Which one of these factors do not affect the process of natural selection?

Genetic Variation

200

Why Do Some Species Survive While Others Go Extinct?

Change Of Conditions

200

What is a fossil and how do they form? Explain.

Fossils are preserved remains of an organisms or traces of living remains. Sediment surrounding the organism turns into stone and the original remains dissolved leaving a mold.

200

True or false? Scientist use genetic DNA in order to determine the species ancestors and relatives

True

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who made natural selection

Chales Darwin

300

true or false there are 6 thousand units in one copy of DNA

false there a 6 billion

300

What is the measure of and individual's fitness?

its ability to survive and reproduce 

300

how do fossils form

a mold creates a hollow area inside a rock that is shaped of an organism or part of an organism

300

what are protiens

complicated molecules that carry out important function

400

What is the name of the person that taught herself how to reconstruct the bodies of fossilized animals, which helped scientists to figure out that some animals lived in the past and are extinct now?

Lamarack, Lyell, Anning, or Darwin?

Mary Anning

400

What is any change in DNA of a gene or a chromosome?

A mutation

400

True or false- The process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other over time is called natural selection.

False- It is called Coevolution.

400

Many types of fossils live in what type of water?

Still water

400

The _______ of genes can occur when one cell engulfs the other or when bacteria share their DNA with other cells.

Variation, Mutation, or Transfer?

Transfer

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What is it called when an organism inherits a behavior or physical characteristic that helps the organism survive and reproduce in its environment?

Adaption

500

The process by which organisms that are best adapted to their environment are most likely to survive and reproduce is called...

Natural Selection

500

The adaption of ducks having oily feathers allows them to keep...

Dry

500

True or False?  A fossil is the impression that an organism or part of an organism leaves in the atmosphere.

False

500

What does LUCA stand for?

Last Universal Common ancestor

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