Evolution 1
Evolution 2
Evolution 3
Classification 1
Classification 2
100
The process in which a species has changed over time is known as this.
What is evolution?
100
The concept of humans selecting desired traits in species.
What is Selective Breeding?
100
The ability of an individual to survive and reproduce is known as this.
What is fitness?
100
The kingdom of heterotrophic multicellular eukaryotes without a cell wall.
What is Kingdom Animalia?
100
The system of assigning a scientific name that consists of two parts.
What is Binomial Nomenclature?
200
Similar structures that evolved from a common ancestor such as bones humans, cats, bats, and whales have in common.
Homologous Structures
200
This term refers to different traits and alleles within a population.
What is variation?
200
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an adaptation?
200
A kingdom of unicellular prokaryotes that inhabit extreme environments.
What are Kingdom Archaebacteria?
200
The highest, the broadest, level of classification in the system developed by Linnaeus.
What are kingdoms?
300
This type of selection acts on one extreme of the population and skews future populations the opposite way.
What is directional selection?
300
The concept that members of each species are seeking the same food, space, and other necessities is known as this.
What is competition?
300
The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful
What is survival of the fittest?
300
Kingdom that includes unicellular organisms with a nucleus, can be plant-like, animal-like or fungi-like.
Kingdom Protista
300
Bacteria, Archaea & Eukarya
What are the 3 domains?
400
Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring?
Natural Selection
400
This is a type of structure that was once used in a species, but has since evolved to be of no real use.
vestigial structure
400
Darwin was from the 1800's. What part of modern science did he lack knowledge of in order to better explain how traits were passed down from parent to offspring?
genetics and DNA
400
A kingdom of mostly multicellular heterotrophs with cell walls of chitin.
What is Kingdom Fungi?
400
A diagram used to show how similar species are to each other.
What is a cladogram?
500
What is stabilizing selection?
500
disruptive selection
500
Who was the french naturalist credited with one of the early theories that organisms changed over time from simple to more complex by passing on acquired traits.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamark?
500
A kingdom that consists totally of autotrophs.
What is Kingdom Plantae?
500
If they can mate and produce fertile offspring.
How are organisms placed in species?