Darwin
Name one of the four major pieces of evidence for Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
the fossil record, embryology, comparative anatomy, or molecular biology
Name one of the four Principles of Natural Selection.
What is variation, overproduction, adaptation, natural selection?
Changes in groups of organisms happen slowly over time.
What is natural selection?
This drives scientists to genetically engineer and improve products.
What is money?
The explanation for where all of this life came from and what happened to species that are no longer here.
What is natural selection?
Different ways that a trait can be expressed.
What are variations?
An excellent example used in the notes and classroom discussions for selective breeding/artificial selection.
What are dog breeds?
An identical genetic copy happened to the dog in the article we read in class and the mouse in the BW assignment.
What is cloning?
This occurs when an outside breeder selects the most desired traits to pass from parents to offspring
What is artificial selection
A trait shaped by natural selection that increases an organism's chance of survival and reproduction.
What is an adaptation?
One of the four factors of Natural Selection.
What are: happens slowly over time, selected traits improve an organism's chance to survive and reproduce, improve the organism's fitness, or environment influences survival?
The population of mosquitoes in Thedford is about 10,000. The village sprays for mosquitoes on Monday evening. Tuesday afternoon, there are still about 1,000 of the original population present in town. What is true about that 10% of the population?
What are the mosquitos must have developed (evolved) immunity to the insecticide?
Where Darwin stopped and did most of his research on adaptation.
Where are the Galapagos Islands?
An explanation for overproduction.
What is when a species produces more offspring than will survive so that the species can have a chance to survive?
One of the four factors of artificial selection.
What are: happens quickly over time, the trait is desirable to breeders, decreases an organism's fitness, human influence survival.
A danger of cloning or inbreeding where organisms contain the majority of the same DNA passed down from generation to generation.
What is the inability to fight off genetic mutations and diseases because offspring are closely genetically related?
Darwin thought that the plants and animals of the Galapagos islands showed some similar characteristics to those organisms on mainland South America. What was his explanation for this?
Similar ancestors had migrated to the Galapagos islands sometime in the past
WoolyBooger Lab was an example of which term?
What are natural selection and/or adaptation?
The aspects of the WoolyBooger Lab made it perfect to describe Natural Selection.
What is if the beak did not work then the species would die with that trait; however, any beak that did work had a better chance to survive and reproduce?
(Needs to follow the Misc 600 question): Three weeks later, the population of mosquitoes is back to about 10,000 mosquitoes. Will the number of mosquitos dying be more or less than the first time?
Fewer of the mosquitoes will die (than did the first time because a higher percentage of the mosquitoes will be carrying the genes that make them immune to the chemical)