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Who observed plants and animals on Galapagos Islands?
Darwin
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What is the difference between "artificial selection" and "natural selection"?
Artificial is done by humans - natural by nature
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Darwin noticed that animals of his day changed from extinct animals by looking at ____________.
fossils
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Some structures inherited from organisms have lost their function due to different selection pressures. These are called....
Vestigial Structures
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Who observed plants and animals in what is now Malaysia and Indonesia? (Malay Archipelago)
Wallace Darwin Lamarck Malthus
(Alfred) Wallace
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In order for natural selection to occur, organisms in a species need to show some differences due to their genes. This is known as __________________.
Variation
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A heritable characteristic that increases an organisms ability to survive is called an A_________________.
Adaptation
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The _____________ __________ _____ is a nearly identical set of rules that translates DNA and RNA sequences into proteins across all living organisms.
Universal Genetic Code
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Natives of Galapagos Islands could tell which island various Tortoises came from. How?
The shapes on their shells.
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Natural selection occurs when there are more individuals _______________ than can _____________________. This is called Survival of the ___________.
Born , survive, fittest
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In order for natural selection to affect the evolution of a species, the differences between individuals must be H_______________.
Heritable
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What style of dance is Argentina famous for?
Tango
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How did the work of geologists help shape the ideas of Darwin?
They realized the earth was much older than than previously thought and had changed over time. So, he thought, living creatures could too.
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Animal parts with the same underlying skeletal structure with different functions (such as bat wing and human forearm) are called...
Homologous Structures
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If local environmental conditions change, some traits that were once adaptive may no longer be useful and could actually be harmful. Give an example.
Answers will vary. (Dryer climates make grass brown most often...now a brown color would be best....for example.)
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What style of dance originated in Cuba?
Salsa
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What does "fitness" mean in biology?
The ability to survive and reproduce.
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The study of the stages of developing organisms is called ...
Embryology
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According to the principle of common descent, all species are descended from ancient C__________ A____________.
Common Ancestors.
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