Something that can be inherited through genetic characteristics... means that everyone is different!
What is variation?
100
Where was Charles Darwin from?
What is England?
100
In natural selection, this is the agent that "selects" for or against traits of an organism.
What is the environment?
100
the vocab word that means change through time. The theory that existing life forms have evolved from earler forms over long periods of time.
What is evolution?
200
Organisms often have more ____________ than will survive.
What is offspring?
200
Where in England itself did Darwin gain evidence of natural selection?
What is by observing dog breeding!
200
Any kind of inherited trait that improves an organism's chances of survival and reproduction in a given environment.
What is an adaptation?
200
animals that have certain beneficial traits will survive better over time- survival of the best adapted- nature determines who will "win"
What is natural selection
200
A group of the same organism that occupies a specific area in a specific time.
What is a population?
300
When organisms try to get their fair share of a limited amount of resources.
What is competition?
300
What animals did Charles Darwin observe that helped lead him to his theory of evolution- and what did he notice about these animals?
What is either finches beaks or tortoise shells
300
Slang term that descibes how organisms that posess the best traits or adaptations for a particutlar environment are the ones that will successfully pass down their traits to their offspring.
What is "Survival of the Fittest?"
300
A group of genetically similar organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
300
The random appearance of a new trait in an organism.
What is a mutation?
400
The process whereby organisms that have advantages survive and pass their genes onto their offspring.
What is natural selection?
500
Any trace or remains of a once-living organsim that has been preserved by natural processes.