Scientists
Early Earth
Natural Selection
More Evolution
Misc.
100
Father of Evolution.
Natural Selection.
Studied Finches in the Galapagos Islands
Charles Darwin
100
What kind of cells were the first to exist according to evolution? (Answer just 1)
Anaerobic
Prokaryotic
Heterotrophic
100
Survival of the
fittest
100
Used meat in a jar to disprove spontaneous generation.
Redi
100
Other than fossils, name one proof of evidence for Evolution
Biogeography
Anatomy
Molecular (DNA)
Embryology
200
Said that organisms acquire beneficial traits in their lifetimes.
(Long Neck Giraffes)
Lamark
(Lamark=Long Neck)
200
Theory that suggests cells ate other cells and created the first mitochondria and cholorplasts.
Endosymbiotic Theory (Endosymbiosis)
200
What element of NS suggests some organisms produce many offspring because not many will make it to adulthood?
Overproduction
200
Scientist who believed in abiogenesis. Heated broth and thought that he created microorganisms.
John Needham
200
Name one factor that would cause the gene pool of a deer population to decrease?
Lack of food, drought, predators, lack of mates,etc.
300
Said that as the human population increases, resources will decrease.
Thomas Malthus
(Malthus=Mouths to feed)
300
What organelle is said to have evolved by an anaerobic prokarote engulfing an aerobic eukaryote?
Mitochondria
300
What is life coming from life called?
Biogenesis
300
Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation once and for all by creating a flask that is shaped like this letter.
S
300
In Natural Selection, mutations can be beneficial to the survival of organisms because it can lead to what?
(Hint: Not all of the same genes, but different)
Genetic Variation
400
Said that natural geological forces shape the surface of the earth over a long period of time.
Charles Lyell
(Lyell=Land)
400
What organelle is said to have evolved from an aerobic eukarote engulfing a photosynthetic eukaryote.
Chloroplast.
400
Name an example of a similar structure that another organism has that might explain how they are closely related to humans.
Bones in whale arm, bird wing or cat/dog leg.
400
What structures suggest common ancestry by having the SAME structure but different function?
Homologous
400
What structures do NOT show common ancestry but have the same function/different structure?
Analagous
500
Researched Natural Selection but didn't receive the credit.
Alfred Wallace
(Wallace=Walletless)
500
What type of cell was said to be last to develop?
Aerobic
Eukaryotic
Photosynthetic
Autotrophic
500
What characteristic does a wolf share with a leopard but not a horse.
Carnivorous
500
What are structures that have no known purpose in organisms, but must've been useful earlier on?
Vestigial
500
What are one of two tools used to show evolutionary history and how closely related organisms are to one another?
Cladogram and Phylogenetic Tree