Evocabulary
A change in the DNA sequence.
What is a mutation?
What is natural selection?
how individuals are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive.
When an organism completely dies out.
What is Extinction?
He is known as the Father of Evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
Preserved remains of ancient organisms
What are fossils?
Characteristics of natural selection
Overproduction -Variation -Competition -Selection -Environmental factors
a structural adaptation that allows a species to blend in with its surroundings
What is camouflage?
The process in which gene frequency in a population has changed over time.
What is evolution?
Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring?
What is Natural Selection?
Give an example of natural selection and how it works.
Overproduction, Variation, Competition, Selection
According to the modern synthesis, new traits are produced by these.
What are mutations?
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an adaptation?
These organelles within eukaryotic cells are thought to have once been individual prokaryotic cells.
What are the chloroplast & mitochondria?
How does genetic variation and environmental factors work together to cause natural selection?
Genetic variation allows some individuals to have better traits for survival than others.
This terms is used to describe a gene in which the two alleles from mom and dad are different from each other.
What is heterozygous?
Evolutionists believe that similar organisms evolved from a(n)
What is common ancestors?
Darwin's traveled to the ___________ __________ where he discovered divergent species of _____________ which led him to his findings to support evolutionary theory.
What are the Galapagos Islands and finches?