Charles Darwin
Natural selection
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Who gets credit for the theory of natural selection?

Charles Darwin

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What is the term used to describe natural selection?

what is survival of the fittest.
100

What is a vestigial structure?

What is a structure no longer used by an animal.

100

Define fitness

what is ability to survive and reproduce.
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what is an analogous structure 
what is a similar structure in unrelated organisms
200

what animal did Darwin study

Finches

200

What color of moth survived through industrialization because they could blend in?

What is black moth. 

200

what kind of selection are human involved with?

What is artificial.  

200

Define embryo

What is unborn/unhatched offspring. 

200

what is heritability   

What is how peoples genes affect their traits.

300

What island did Darwin go to?

Galapagos 

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does natural selection affect humans?

What is no

300

What is one type of natural selection. 

what is disruptive. 
300

define speciation. 

What is a group inside a species breaks off because it develops new traits.

300

What is not a heritable trait

what is a scar or a learned skill

400

How did the animals that he studied get to island? In one species or multiple?

what is one species

400

If you didn't have the best traits what happened to you?

What is you died.

400

what kind of selection are dogs?

what is artificial. 


400

Define adaption 

A mutation to help an animal better survive in an environment. 

400
define gene pool

What is a pool of traits in an interbreeding population.

500

How long did Charles Darwin stay on the island?

what is five weeks.

500

What happens if you were best suited for the environment?

What is you passed your genes on.

500

Name an anatomical structure.

what is ulna. 

500

Define homologous structure

what is a similar structure from a common ancestor.

500

What would survive in the north pole better a brown bear or a white bear. 

what is a white bear.