What is the genetic material that contains the information for life?
What is DNA?
Yellow beetle and green beetles live in the rainforest canopy. You would expect:
What is the green population will increase and the yellow will decrease?
Darwin used this phrase to describe the way that the environmental conditions determine which organisms survive to reproduce.
What is Natural Selection?
Can an organism "CHOOSE" to evolve and change?
No, organisms CANNOT CHOOSE to change their genes or traits!
In an arctic environment, which would survive longer: red foxes or white foxes?
White foxes
This is what we call the differences among offspring in a species.
What is variation?
What is most likely to happen to moth populations in the picture shown?
Dark moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population decreases.
Does natural selection typically take a long time or a short time?
What is a Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time?
Due to pollution, a pond becomes darker over time. Which trait variation became more common?
What is dark fish?
What is the name of the ship that sank in 1912?
Titanic
What is a change in a gene that results in a new trait?
What is a mutation?
Evidence of the changes in a species' physical characteristics over long geological periods can best be shown through a study of
What is the fossil record
This is the term that describes how well an organism is suited for its environment?
What is "fitness"?
What word describes a TRAIT that HELPS AN ORGANISM SURVIVE in its environment?
What is ADAPTATION?
What is the largest continent?
Asia
A TRAIT that helps an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
What is Adaptation?
What would happen if the environment changes drastically and no organisms have fitting adaptations?
What is a species could go extinct?
After traveling to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin noticed a lot of variation among beak sizes in Finches. This variation was a result of:
Developing different adaptations in order to survive on particular islands
What are structures that remain in modern organisms from ancient relatives that no longer serve a purpose. Ex: Appendix and wisdom teeth
How many teeth does an adult human have? (Closest without going over wins)
32
This is what it is called when two animals live in the same area and eat the same kind of food or need the same resources.
What is Competition?
What is a factor or factors that affect natural selection?
What is variation, competition and fitness
What is the "goal" of natural selection for a species?
What is "SURVIVE" and "REPRODUCE?"
What do we call structures in different organisms that are similar in shape and structure but server a different purpose. This indicates a common ancestor
What are homologous strucures?
What does "www" stand for in a browser?
World Wide Web