Evolution
Decent with modifications.
What is Evolution?
Organisms with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring.
What is the definition of Natural Selection?
Koala's have the ability to eat poisonous eucalyptus.
What is a physiological adaptation?
The Human appendix.
What is a vestigial structure?
The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is Fitness?
The person who wrote to Darwin, speculating on evolution by natural selection.
Who is Alfred Russel Wallace
The variety of dog and cat breeds that we have today are a product of _________ _____________.
What is Artificial Selection?
A variation in an organism that helps it survive
What is an adaptation?
An example of a structure that is homologous to a cat’s paw.
What is a human arm, bat wing, whale flipper?
The name of the ship Darwin sailed on.
What is the Beagle?
Charles Darwin
Who is the father of Evolution?
The name of the islands where Darwin studied and gathered his evidence on Natural Selection
What are The Galapagos Islands?
An organism matches its surroundings in order to hide.
What is camouflage?
A snake's tongue and dog nose.
What are analogous structures?
The name of the natural event that can cause the elimination of marine iguanas.
What is El Ni·ño?
Evolution allows for this, having a variety of species.
What is Biodiversity?
List the three factors needed for natural selection to occur?
What is
(the struggle for existence)
(variation and adaptation)
(survival of the fittest)
The monarch and viceroy butterflies.
What is mimicry?
The horseshoe crab and spider.
What is biochemistry?
One evidence that whales evolved from being land animals to marine animals.
What is a hipbone?
Different species having similar characteristics as embryos.
What is a common ancestor?
The bird whose child kills it's sibling to help the mother survive.
What is the masked boobie?
List three characteristics of giraffes that are adaptations for living on the savanna.
What are long neck, legs, and tongue?
Ostriches, Rheas, and Emus living on different continents, but having similar characteristics.
What is biogeography?
Three ways variations can occur.
What is crossing over, non-disjunction, and mutations?