Darwin
This person proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Another phrase that is sometimes substituted for Natural Selection.
What is Survival of the Fittest?
The two main goals of all species
Survive and reproduce
Extinction
This process refers to the change in species over time.
What is Evolution?
This was the hardest part of Darwin's journey?
What is his seasickness?
This is the name of the process that makes evolution happen.
What is Natural Selection?
Traits that are passed from one generation to the next is referred to as this.
What is Heredity?
This is the name for preserved remains of ancient organisms
What are fossils?
This molecule contains the genetic information that can be used to find relationships between organisms
What is DNA?
These are the islands Darwin visited
What are the Galapagos Islands?
A sudden change to the genetic material of an organism. This can be a deletion, substitution or addition.
What is mutation?
Organisms adapt to changes in this.
What is their environment?
This refers to the remains of organisms that depict the history of life on Earth
What is the fossil record?
These are structures with no current purpose or function
What are Vestigial Structures?
Darwin observed this structure in finches in the Galapagos
What are beaks?
These things can greatly impact evolution of small populations.
What is Genetic Drift, Gene Flow, and Mutations?
This is what we call the struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources
What is Competition?
This is the closest living ancestor of Cetaceans that lives on land.
What is the hippo?
When a breeder only allows the fastest of her horses to reproduce, she is practicing this.
What is artificial selection?
This is the name of the ship that Darwin sailed around the world.
What is the HMS Beagle?
The fields that supported Darwin's theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.
What are Anatomy, Embryology, Geology (fossils), Chemistry, and Biology?
Name three of the types of evidence for evolution.
What are Embryological, Anatomical, Fossil and DNA?
Species that are currently alive are sometimes called this.
What is extant?
This is the diagram that shows how organisms are related.
What is a Phylogenetic Tree?