History
In this process Nature provides all of the varieties and Man selects the variations that are found most useful.
What is artificial selection?
This type of scientist studies how the Earth has changed over billions of years.
What is a geologist?
Charles Darwin made many observations and collected what would become evidence of Evolution on these islands west of Equador.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
An inherited characteristic that improves an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
What is an adaptation?
This phrase means "how are living things spread out over the world."
What is the biogeography?
The study of fossils or extinct organisms, which continues to provide new information and support current hypothesis about how evolution occurs.
What is paleontology?
These preserved remains of ancient organisms show the history of life on Earth.
What is the fossil record or what are fossils?
The ability of an organism to survive and produce more offspring than other members of the population.
What is fitness?
This is caused by random change in the gene pool and affects small populations more.
What is genetic drift?
Rock strata demonstrate that geologic processes, which are still occurring today add up over long periods of time to cause great change.
What is uniformitarianism?
In 1859 Charles Darwin published this controversial book concerning species diversity, natural selection and evolution.
What is On the Origin of Species?
Charles Darwin's grandfather who was born in 1731. He proposed that all living things were descended from a common ancestor and that more complex forms of life arose from less complex forms. What was his name.
Who is Erasmus Darwin?
These small body parts were once used in ancestors, but are no longer used today.
What are vestigial organs?
A trait that show up more easily than other traits. For example: There are more brown haired people vs. red hair.
What is a dominant trait?
Canyons carved by rivers show gradual change. This is the idea that changes on Earth occurred by small steps over long periods of time.
What is gradualism?
The naturalist that proposed the body parts atrophy from disuse, like kangaroo front paws. These body parts can then become larger or smaller based on the use.
Who was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
Structures of organisms that function similarly but do not come from a common ancestor and are not structured in the same way, such as insect wings and bird wings.
What is an analogous structure?
This diagram represents the possible outcome of two traits and the likely hood of how these traits show up in organisms based on genetic inheritance
What is a dihybrid cross?
There were this many species of Finches on the Galapagos Islands. Name three of them.
What is 13 and and answers vary?