Evolution Chicken
Evolution Whale
Evolution Dinosaur
Evolution Genes
Evolution Hamburger
100
The process in which a species has changed over time is known as this.
What is evolution?
100
He is known as the Father of Evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
The ability of an individual to survive and reproduce is known as this.
What is fitness?
100
Darwin was from the 1800's. What part of modern science did he lack knowledge of in order to better explain how traits were passed down from parent to offspring?
What is genetics?
100
Some weed species have developed the ability to resist pesticides. How does the theory of evolution by natural selection help to explain his ability?
What are genetic variations, some weeds in the population had the ability to resist pesticides?
200
Similar structures that evolved from a common ancestor such as bones humans, cats, bats, and whales have in common.
What are Homologous Structures?
200
Scientist who came after Darwin and cleared up how traits were passed down to offspring.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
200
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an adaptation?
200
A record of Earth changing over a long period of time
What is fossil record?
300
Preserved remains of ancient organisms
What are fossils?
300
This term refers to different traits and alleles within a population.
What is variation?
300
The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful
What is survival of the fittest?
300
This type of vestigial structure is found in our digestive system. This organ used to be used to digest cellulose for our ancient ancestors.
What is the appendix?
400
What characteristics did Darwin observe about the finches on the Galapagos Islands?
What are their beaks? They adapted to different food sources.
400
What is the function of Antibiotics?
What is to kill or slow the growth of bacteria?
400
Structures that have no apparent function and appear to be residual parts from a past ancestor
What are Vestigial Structures?
400
The person who gave you the DNA to make your mitochondria
What is your mother?
400
Snakes with small legs and your tail bone are examples of these
What are vestigial organs?
500
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?
500
Pesticides can be used to control a variety of pests, such as insects, weeds, rodents, bacteria, fungi, etc. Over time many pesticides have gradually lost their effectiveness because pests have developed resistance – a significant decrease in sensitivity to a pesticide, which reduces the field performance of these pesticides.
What is pesticide resistance?
500
Conditions that limit an organisms ability to survive and controls the number in a population?
Selective pressure
500
collectively, all of the alleles of the population’s genes
What is a gene pool?
600
Which condition had the greatest impact on the emergence of new species in Earth's history?
What is Mass Extinction?
600
when gene frequencies are changed by chance or random events in a isolated population
What is Genetic Drift?
600
What are common ancestors?
600
Animals and plants can change as a ______________ but not as an individual.
species
600
A mistake or change that occurs in the DNA sequence is called a ______________________.
What is a mutation?
700
Body structures on different organisms that are similar in function but did not evolve from the same ancestor (bird wing and butterfly wing)
What are Analogous Structures?
700
distantly related organisms evolve to become more similar
What is Convergent Evolution?