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Natural Selection
Evidence
Variation
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100
Charles Darwin joined the crew of this ship and set sail from England in 1831.
What is the H.M.S. Beagle?
100

In this process Nature provides all of the varieties and Man selects the variations that are found most useful.

What is artificial selection?

100

Similarities in the body structures of species is possible evidence that the species are ___________.

What is Related?

100

The study of fossils or extinct organisms, which continues to provide new information and support current hypothesis about how evolution occurs. 

What is paleontology?

100

__________ is the process by which species adapt to environmental changes over a very long time

What is evolution?

200

Charles Darwin made many observations and collected what would become evidence of Evolution on these islands west of Equador.

What are the Galapagos Islands?

200

An inherited characteristic that improves an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.

What is an adaptation?

200

WILD SQUARE!!

What will you get??

Pick another question (worth 300 or less). It is now worth double.

200
This is not a swimming pool filled with Levi's. This is a collection of all the genes that are present in a population.
What is a gene pool?
200

According to fossil evidence, about how long ago did LIFE start on Earth?

How old is the Tree of Life?

What is 3.5/3.6 Billion Years?

300

These preserved remains of ancient organisms show the history of life on Earth.

What is the fossil record or what are fossils?

300
Over time this mechanism of evolution causes changes in the inherited characteristics of a population. These changes cause an increase in a species' fitness in its environment. This term is closely related to survival of the fittest.
What is natural selection?
300
The prefix of this word means the same in Latin. Arms, legs, flippers, and wings are all built from the same basic bones.
What are homologous structures?
300

What is the study of the early stages of life called?

What is Embryology?

300

What do you call a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait?

What is a mutation?

400

This occurs when a natural disaster causes a drastic reduction in population size and leads to a loss of genetic diversity.

What is bottleneck effect?

400
Mutations and gene shuffling as a result of sexual reproduction are the two main sources of this phenomena.
What is genetic variation?
400

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?

400

How many DNA bases are there?

Extra 100pts if you can name them

What is 4?

ATCG

400

This occurs when a small group of individuals from a larger population establishes a new, isolated population leading to reduced genetic variation

What is founder effect?

500

What is the movement of individuals into or out of, or between populations called?

What is Gene Flow?

500

The ability of an organism to survive and produce more offspring than other members of the population.

What is fitness?

500

These small body parts were once used in ancestors, but are no longer used today. 

What are vestigial organs?

500

What do we call a group of organisms of the same type that do not reproduce with any other groups?

What is Species?

500

_________ is an older population from which two or more newer species descended

What is Common Ancestor?