Darwin
Charles Darwin set sail to see the world aboard this ship.
This type of evidence uses fossils that are found and compares them to the rock that they were found in to tell how old something is.
What are Fossil Records?
The type of evidence by which we look at the structures and functions of various animals to determine if they come from a common ancestor.
What is Comparative Anatomy?
This principle of Natural Selection states that differences in a species can be inherited, this being the basis for Natural Selection.
What is Variation?
The HMS Beagle took Darwin to this set of islands located near South America.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
This is the type of evidence that compares the DNA and RNA of animals together to look for similarities to determine an evolutionary relationship.
What is Biochemistry?
This is the type of evidence that says by looking at the youngest embryos of various species and comparing features, such as gill slits, you can suggest evolution and a common ancestor.
What is Embryology?
This principle of Natural Selection states that organisms will produce multiple offspring so that the ones best suited for the environment will survive.
What is overproduction?
Darwin while exploring comes across an animal that while living in the same region have developed differently due to the location of this resource
What is food?
This type of evidence looks at the environment that the animal lives in and how it affects their appearance over time.
What is Biogeography?
This is a type of comparative anatomy that says the structures of the animals are the same, while the function may differ, which leads to the conclusion of a similar ancestor.
What is Homologous Structure?
This principle of Natural Selection states that a mutation, or genetic change, that helps an organism survive in its environment and that more successful individuals are “naturally selected” to live longer and produce more offspring.
What is Adaptation?
After coming across the tortoises Darwin came up with these two ideas. Provide both of the ideas that he came up with.
What is the Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection?
This is a type of Biogeography in which the animals come from a common ancestor but due to living in different environments develop different features.
What is Divergent Evolution?
This is a type of Biogeography that says species that are not closely related but happen to live in similar environments may develop similar features.
What is Convergent Evolution?
This principle of Natural Selection states that over time, natural selection will result in species with adaptations that are well suited for survival and reproduction in an environment.
What is Descent with Modification?
This person's ideas helped to lead Darwin to his theory of Natural Selection.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
This is a type of Comparative Anatomy that says the body structure that is still present but no longer has a function for the animal today. (Ex. the human appendix)
What is a vestigial structure?
This type of evidence can be seen taking place around us. We see it mostly through the subcategory in which humans change a species by breeding it for certain traits. Provide both the type of evidence and the subcategory.
What are Direct Observation and Artificial Selection?
What are the two types of adaptations that are the most common?
What are Mimicry and Camoflague?