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Evolution
Evidence of Evolution
Vocabulary
Natural Selection
Hodge Podge
100
Who's theory of evolution is widely accepted because of continuous observations and testing?
Who is Charles Darwin
100

All of the preserved remains/traces of organisms that we as humans have collected around the world across generations.

What is the fossil record?

100

The change in species heritable traits within a population, across generations.

What is Evolution?

100
This key principal for natural selection says that organism produce more offspring than will survive
What is overproduction.
100
This person suggested that when giraffes stretched their necks to eat from tall trees, their offspring inherited this longer neck.
Who is Lamarck
200

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.

What are fossils?

200

Hip bones in whales, leg bones in snakes, and wings on a penguin are all examples of what?

What are vestigial structures?

200
When breeders produce a new breed by selecting desired traits and only allowing those individuals to breed.
What is artificial selection
200

Another key principle that states that species traits have different forms from one individual to another.

What is variation?

200
A wing of a bat and an wing of a butterfly are considered this.
What is analogous structures
300
This person formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin
300

Observing anatomical structures of organisms and determining if they show evidence or a common ancestor, homologous, analogous, and vestigial structures are part of this.

What is Comparative Anatomy?

300

A change in genetic information.

What is a mutation?

300

The measure of an organism's ability to survive based on its traits and adaptations?

What is fitness?

300
This is a widely accepted statement based on scientific evidence that helps explain and predict natural phenomena.
What is a scientific theory.
400

These are passed down from parent to offspring based on a organism's genetic makeup: hair color, eye color, nose shape, are all examples.

What are inherited characteristics/traits.

400

The study of the early developmental stages of species, that shows common ancestry through common traits in these early stages.

What is embryology?

400

The struggle between organisms and other organisms or between organisms and their environment.

What is competition?

400

This is what Charles Darwin identified in his book The Origin of Species as the driver behind the process of Evolution.

What is Natural Selection?

400

This is a segment of genetic material found in a cell.

What is a gene.

500
These are learned behaviors that an organism develops throughout its lifetime.

What are acquired characteristics/traits?

500

The study of where species live on the planet and how that has affected their development. Tortoises on the Galapagos Islands are similar to those in South America but better adapted to island life.

What is Biogeography or Geographical Distribution?

500
A change that increases an organisms chances for survival is called...
What is an adaptation.
500
Darwin would say that species alive today are descended with modifications (adaptations) from this.
What is a common ancestor.
500

These are anatomical structures with the same parts but widely different functions.

What are homologous structures?