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.
In artificial selection, nature provides the ______.
What are traits/adaptations?
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?
When extreme forms of a trait are adaptive, this is know as ________ selection.
What is disruptive?
In selective breeding, nature is not selecting traits, instead traits are selected by ______.
What are humans?
This is the concept that species do not change between huge geological incidents like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
What is catastrophism?
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, iguanas, and finches?
This occurs in a population when there is a scarcity of food or other resources.
What is competition?
Example of selective breeding that we talked about at the beginning of the ethics of genetic engineering unit?
What are dogs?
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 wahy more offspring than can possibly survive.
What is overproduction?
Certain hybrids created through selective breeding are not considered species because they cannot ______.
What is produce fertile offspring?
Cuvier did not think that fossils showed _______.
What are intermediate forms?
What explains the fact that hats went up when shorts were being positively selected, even though hats were not under selection?
There were a lot of people who had shorts and wore hats initially, so hats "hitchhiked" along with the shorts 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. And the year it was published!
What is On the Origin of Species? 1859