Charles Darwin
This is the name of the ship Darwin Sailed on.
What is the HMS Beagle?
This term is defined as a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce.
What is an adaptation?
Darwin was a fan of breeding these animals.
What are fancy pigeons?
Darwin noticed that some fossils of extinct animals were similar to ______.
What are living species?
This event wiped out a lot of people in our simulation, without regard for their traits.
What is a massive volcanic eruption?
This type of scientist, which Darwin was, is curious about the natural world.
What is a naturalist?
In natural selection, change is observed in a population over many _____.
What are generations?
In artificial selection, nature provides the ______.
What are variations?
Fossils reflect an age of the earth that is not 6000 years old, but _____ years old.
What is "billions of"/ 4.6 billion years old.
When the room was hot, this trait was under strong selection.
What is pants length?
Darwin made important observations about the evolution of these three species in the Galapagos islands.
What are: tortoises, finches, iguanas?
This occurs in a population when there is a scarcity of food or other resources.
What is competition?
In selective breeding, nature is not selecting traits, instead traits are selected by ______.
What are humans?
A "glyptodont" is similar to what modern animal?
What is an armadillo?
These traits were not under selection during our simulation.
What are head size and feet size?
Darwin questioned the religious explanation for these two important unknowns.
What are the age of the earth and where all the species come from?
This is the concept that most organisms produce way more offspring than can possibly survive.
What is overproduction?
Example of selective breeding that we talked about at the beginning of the ethics of genetic engineering unit?
What are dogs?
Fossils reflect the idea that all organisms descended from ______.
What is a common ancestor/common origin?
This is a trait that is not under selection but that changes in parallel with a trait that is under selection.
What is a hitchhiker trait?
These are two genetic processes by which variation is increased in a population, something that Darwin did not know about in his time.
What are alleles (shuffling, sexual reproduction), and mutation of DNA?
This is the name of Darwin's famous book on evolution.
What is On the Origin of Species?
Certain hybrids created through selective breeding are not considered species because they cannot ______.
What is produce fertile offspring?
These are three reasons why the fossil record is incomplete.
What is fossil rarity, decomposition of soft tissues, geological variation across the earth?