Natural Selection
Evidence
Speciation
Mechanisms
Misc.
100

The process in which species change over time.

What is EVOLUTION?

100

The oldest fossils are found in this layer of rock.

What is the DEEPEST/BOTTOM layer?

100

A group of organisms that can interbreed to create fertile offspring.  

What is a SPECIES?

100

A change in DNA sequence.

What is a MUTATION?

100

He is known as the Father of Evolution.

Who is CHARLES DARWIN?

200

Individuals that are better at surviving are more likely to reproduce and pass on their beneficial genes to their offspring.

What is NATURAL SELECTION?

200

Similar structures that evolved from a common ancestor such as upper limb bones that humans, bats, cats, and whales have in common.

What are HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES?

200

Formation of a new species.

What is SPECIATION?

200

When organisms move in or out of a population, resulting in change.  

What is GENE FLOW?

200

Darwin travelled here on his voyage.

Where are the GALAPAGOS ISLANDS?

300

The ability of an individual to pass on their genes is known as this. 

What is FITNESS?

300

Structures that have no current function, but that provide information about ancestors.

What are VESTIGIAL STRUCTURES?

300

When members of a species are split into different areas; when barriers split a habitat.

What is GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION?

300

When a population is changed by random, chance events.

What is GENETIC DRIFT?

300

If fossil A is found on the surface and fossil B is found much deeper, this fossil is younger.

What is FOSSIL A?

400

An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival.

What is an ADAPTATION?

400

The strongest type of evidence of evolution.

What is DNA / BIOCHEMICAL / MOLECULAR evidence?

400

When members of a groups can no longer interbreed. (Factors that prevent two species from mating.)

What is REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION?

400

When change occurs gradually over long periods of time?

What is GRADUALISM?

400

When trees turned darker as a result of industrialization, these moths were favored.

What are DARKER MOTHS?

500

If only faster fish can survive in the presence on a predator, this type of fish will be selected AGAINST.

What is SLOW FISH?

500

Humans are more closely related to this species.

Number of amino acid differences from humans:

Rabbits- 4             Fish- 14

What are RABBITS?

500

Members of a group no longer interbreed because they each mate at a different time of year.

What is TEMPORAL ISOLATION?  

500

When a new species appears suddenly after long periods of little change.  

What is PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM?

500

THREE things that organisms compete over.  

What are FOOD, SPACE, MATES, WATER?

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