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What is it called when you have a variety of traits in a population?
Diversity
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What does an organism's fitness mean?
The ability to survive and reproduce
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When organisms disappear from the earth
Extinction
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Proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection
Who was Charles Darwin
100
Name one thing we can compare or look at among organisms to see if they share a common ancestor
bones, DNA
200
What was the environmental factor/pressure that caused the finches in the Galapagos Islands to develop different beak shapes?
Different food sources
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Traces of organisms left behind in rocks and amber
a fossil
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What are homologous structures?
Structures that have different functions but the same bone structure
Ex: whale fin and human arm
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These birds had different shaped beaks depending on the island they were from that Darwin studied
Finches
200
True or False: Individual organisms can evolve
False
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Organisms evolve due to changes in their DNA called...
mutations
300
These are homologous structures. Similarities in these limbs suggest...
a common ancestor
(and adapted to different environments)
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A characteristic that helps an organism survive
Adaption
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Whale ancestors having back legs suggests what?
They once lived on land
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Species that have a wide variety of traits, what is most likely to happen to this species?
Survive and reproduce
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Why would a species of tortoise develop longer necks and saddle shaped shells?
Their food source is located higher above their heads.
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Fossils include preserved...
bones, body parts, footprints, eggs
400
True or False: The better an organism can adapt, the greater its chances of survival.
True
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When coyotes prey on a group of rabbits, some rabbits are killed and some escape. Which part of Darwin's concept of natural selection might be used to describe this situation?
survival of the fittest
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Change over time is defined as
Evolution
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Darwin would describe the overall changes in neck length in a population of giraffes as...
natural selection
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Islands that Darwin visited
The Galapagos Islands
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Why do we need to make a new flu shot each year?
the virus can mutate its antigens very quickly
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Differences among the traits of organisms in a population are called?
Variations
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The evolutionary history of the Earth and its fossil record is incomplete because...
Many organisms don't leave behind fossils, making gaps/missing links