Adaptation/Application
Selection Speciation, and Extinction
Natural Selection
Evidence for Evolution
Vocabulary
100
Adaptations that affect how an organism acts
What are behavioral adaptations?
100
Types of isolations that reproductive isolation
What are Geographical, Behavioral, and Temporal?
100
Individuals fighting for limited resources.
What is competition?
100
Species change over time.
What is evolution?
100
A process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment.
What is an Adaptation?
200
Adaptations that affect the physical features of an organism
What are structural adaptations?
200
A company has received the rights and permission to build a factory in a current forested area. This area is the only location of apple snails, which is the only food source of the everglades snail kite (a type of bird). This company completes demolition of the forest and begins production within 2 years.
What is extinction?
200
Producing more offspring than will survive
What is Overproduction?
200
The type of anatomy that has similar structure but may have different functions.
What are homologous structures?
200
The ability to survive and reproduce
What is fitness?
300
When an organism can blend in to its environment to hide.
What is camouflage?
300
A population of lizards live in an area that has started to be much hotter and drier over the last 15 years. Most of the lizards eat insects as a primary diet, but a few of the lizards will also eat plants. As the area has started to get hotter and drier, there have been fewer and fewer insects since they avoid the heat.
What is natural selection?
300
Individuals pass on their traits to their offspring .
What is Inheritance?
300
The thing that biochemistry (DNA/RNA) looks for in sequencing in related species.
What are the similarities and differences?
300
The purposeful choosing of traits by humans.
What is Artificial Selection?
400
Name a physical adaptation of the Aye Aye that were discussed in class,
What are the Aye Aye's fingers, ears, and teeth.
400
There is a large population of birds in a rainforest. Most of the birds eat insects and many will also eat seeds. As the population begins to experience competition for the insects as food, a small group begins to mainly eat the seeds. The seed eaters are in a different section of the trees than the ones still mainly eating insects. They become more isolated over several years.
What is speciation?
400
Differences within the same species that helps the population survive environmental changes.
What is Variation?
400
The type of evidence for evolution being shown. (This is an armadillo by the way)
What are fossils?
400
A random change in a gene that can either benefit or harm an individual.
What is mutation?
500
The adaptation is most beneficial for the staphylococcus aureus bacteria
What is Antibiotic resistance?
500
A prairie area covered in thick grasses is home to a population of mice. The mice come in a variety of tan and brown shades. Each of the color variations seems to be able to find mates and food without difficulty. Also, the predators like hawks don't seem to notice one of variation over the other. There is NO change to the environment.
What is NO adaptation or Natural Selection?
500
The rock pocket mouse population changing over time from light to dark to better suit the environment.
What is Shift in population?
500
The type of anatomy that has different structures but the same function.
What are analogous structures?
500
Traits that become more common in a population.
What are advantageous traits.