Vocabulary
Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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Natural Selection
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Random
100
What is the genetic material that contains the information for life?
What is DNA?
100
Yellow beetles and green beetles live in the rainforest canopy. You would expect what to happen over time :
What is the green population will increase and the yellow will decrease?
100
What is another term for "survival of the fittest"?
What is Natural Selection?
100
In the context of natural selection, what is fitness?
What is the ability to reproduce
100
In an arctic environment, which would survive longer: red foxes or white foxes?
White foxes
200
What is a piece of DNA that contains the information for a trait called?
What is A gene?
200
What is most likely to happen to moth populations in the picture shown?
Dark moths--hunted easily, dark moths--population decreases.
200
Does natural selection typically take a long time or a short time?
What is a Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time?
200
Due to pollution, a pond becomes darker over time. Which trait variation in fish became more common?
What is darker fish?
200
What is the name of the famous ship that sank in 1912?
Titanic
300
What is a change in a gene that results in a new trait?
What is a mutation?
300
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
300
What is the term for how well an organism is suited for its environment?
It has adaptations that allow it to survive and reproduce where it lives!
What is "fitness"?
300
What word describes a TRAIT that HELPS or HARMS an organism in its environment?
What is ADAPTATION?
300
What is the largest continent?
Asia
400
A TRAIT that helps an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
What is Adaptation?
400
What would happen if the environment changes drastically and no organisms have fitting adaptations?
What is a species could go extinct?
400
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
400
Can an organism "CHOOSE" to evolve and change?
No, organisms CANNOT CHOOSE to change their genes or traits!
400
How many teeth does an adult human have?
32
500
When humans select for their needs, which gene is the best to breed for in an organism
What is selective breeding
500
What is a factor or factors that affect natural selection?
What are variation, inheritance and fitness
500
What is the "goal" of natural selection for a species?
What is "SURVIVE" and "REPRODUCE?"
500
In the first simulation of Wolves and Rabbits, the white rabbits never disappeared from the brown environment. Why do the white rabbits never fully disappear, which genotype is responsible for this? BB, Bb, or bb
What is Bb
500
What are structures that remain in modern organisms from ancient relatives that no longer serve a purpose? Ex: Appendix and wisdom teeth
Vestigial Structures