Evidence of Evolution
The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.
What is a fossil?
The "Father of Evolution?
Who is Charles Darwin?
Describes how well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is fitness?
Decent with modifications or change over time.
What is evolution?
What are the Galapagos Islands?
All organisms use the same genetic message to produce proteins.
What biochemistry?
These birds were made famous by Charles Darwin?
What are finches?
Any kind of inherited trait that improves an organism's chances of survival and reproduction in a given environment.
What is an adaptation?
Having a variety of species.
What is biodiversity?
Koala's eating eucalyptus leaves.
What is a physiologic adaptation?
The wing of a bee and the wing of a bird.
What are analogous structures?
What was the name of the boat that Darwin sailed in?
What is The Beagle
Two examples of structural adaptations.
What are mimicry and camouflage?
Nature provides the variations, and humans select those they find useful.
What is artificial selection?
Viceroy and Monarch butterflies.
What is mimicry?
Organisms have the same structures inherited by a common ancestor.
What are homologous structures?
What is natural selection?
These three events can cause variations.
What are crossing over, non-disjunction, and mutations?
Differences between parent and their offspring caused by changes in their genes.
What is a variation?
What compound do Horseshoe crab use in their blood to carry oxygen?
What is copper?
When organisms in separate environments (ex: on different continents) originated from a common ancestor.
What is biogeography?
Darwin noted three patterns of biodiversity, list them.
What is species vary globally, locally, and over time.
The three factors needed for natural selection to take place.
What is struggle for existence, variation and adaptation, and survival of the fittest?
A structure in an organism that has no modern day function. (ex. human appendix)
What is a vestigial structure?
The term for the first born masked booby killing the second born.
What is siblicide?