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Evolution
Natural Selection
Adaptations
Evidence for Evolution
Miscellaneous
100
Two different organisms are alike, they share this in their bloodline
What is a Common Ancestor?
100
A little child catches a fly and pulls its wings off. The fly actually lives a better life, but does not pass its lack of wings on to its offspring because the loss of wings is an _________ _______.
What is an Acquired Trait?
100

The venom of the black mamba snake is an example of a type of this type of adaptaion

What is an example of Physiological Adaptation?

100

In embryology, the embryos are very similar to each other demonstrating that had these.

What is a common ancestor?

100

It is important for new individuals to come into a population

What is genetic drift?

100
This involves population and individuals
What is Evolution?
100
The survival and reproduction of the organisms that are genetically best fit for their environment
What is the definition of Natural Selection?
100
This is one of the examples of adaptation
What is behavioral adaptation?
100

The hip bones of a dolphin and the tailbone of a human

What are Vestigial or homologous Structures?

100
The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is Fitness?
100
A theory (explanation) supported by evidence for how populations change over time
What is evolution?
100
The variety of dog and cat breeds that we have today are a product of _________ _____________.
What is Artificial Breeding (Selective Breeding)
100
A variation in an organism that helps it survive
What is Adaptation?
100

An example of a structure that is homologous to a cat’s paw.

What is a Dog’s paw, human arm, bat wing, whale flipper

100
The first set of organisms that lived on Earth
What is Bacteria?
100
Charles Darwin
Who is the father of Evolution?
100
The name of the islands where Darwin studied and gathered his evidence on Natural Selection
What are The Galapagos Islands?
100
An organism matches its surroundings in order to hide
What is Camouflage?
100
Body parts that share a common function but have a different structure
What is an analogous structure?
100
A group of organisms that look alike and can reproduce
What is a species?
100
Evolution can only occur is this is involved
What is Genetic Variety?
100
Lamarck said that organisms acquire traits during their lifetime and then pass them on to their offspring
How is the theory of natural selection different from Lamarck's theory?
100

An organism imitates another animal in coloration, call, shape, or sound.

What is Mimicry?

100

Two organisms share a large amount of similar DNA, generally from the same parents.

What are siblings?

100

The appearance of autotrophs on earth is so important to life as we now know it because they could do this.

What is self-nourishment?