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Evolution
Vocab
Wild Card
100
Something that can be inherited through genetic characteristics... means that everyone is different!
What is variation?
100

Person who came up with the idea of Evolution by Natural Selection 

Who is Charles Darwin? 

100
In natural selection, this is the agent that "selects" for or against traits of an organism.
What is the environment?
100

the vocab word that means change through time. The theory that existing life forms have evolved from earler forms over long periods of time.

What is evolution?

100

Type of rock you would find a fossil

What is sedimentary rock?

200
Organisms often have more ____________ than will survive.
What is offspring?
200

Occupation of Charles Darwin

Accept all listed. 

What is naturalist, scientist, philosopher, geologist, explorer, writer, botanist, zoologist? 

200
Any kind of inherited trait that improves an organism's chances of survival and reproduction in a given environment.
What is an adaptation?
200

Any trace or remains of a once-living organism that has been preserved by natural processes.

What is a fossil?

200

What is the name of the anatomical evidence for parts that have different structure but the same function? 

What are analogous structures? 

300

The process where an organism changes over a long period of time

What is evolution?

300
What was the name of the boat that Darwin sailed in?
What is The Beagle
300

Four pieces of evidence we use to support the scientific theory of Evolution

Any order: 

Fossils, Comparative Anatomy, Embryology, and DNA/Proteins

300

The early development of an organism we use to compare for similarities and differences between species

What is an embryo? 

300

Beneficial, Neutral or Harmful mutation: A cavefish with no eyes 

What is a beneficial mutation? 

400
The process whereby organisms that have advantages survive and pass their genes onto their offspring.
What is natural selection?
400

What animals did Charles Darwin observe that helped lead him to his theory of evolution- and what anatomy did he observe?

What is either finches beaks or tortoise shells

400

this type of dating allows you to find the exact age of a rock 

What is radiometric dating? (radioactive dating)

400

The building blocks that make up a protein as dictated by codons

What are amino acids? 

400

The random appearance of a new trait in an organism due to changes in DNA.

What is a mutation?

500

When organisms try to get their fair share of a limited amount of resources.

What is competition?

500

Location Charles Darwin made his observations and drawings about the finch beaks and turtle shells

What is the Galapagos Islands? 

500

Name of the oldest ancestor of the whale from the lab activity 

What is mesonychid?

500

An explanation of events in the natural world based on observations. Unlike a scientific law, this can be falsified or changed.

what is a Scientific Theory?

500

Total number of amino acids that make up proteins 

What is 20?