Evolution
Natural Selection
Adaptations
Evidence for Evolution
Miscellaneous
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 Structures?
100

Whales are most genetically related to this living animal. 

What are hippos?

200
A theory (explanation) supported by evidence for how populations change over time
What is evolution?
200
The variety of dog and cat breeds that we have today are a product of _________ _____________.
What is Artificial Breeding (Selective Breeding)
200
A variation in an organism that helps it survive
What is Adaptation?
200
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
200
The first set of organisms that lived on Earth
What is Bacteria?
300
Charles Darwin
Who is the father of Evolution?
300
The name of the islands where Darwin studied and gathered his evidence on Natural Selection
What are The Galapagos Islands?
300
An organism matches its surroundings in order to hide
What is Camouflage?
300
Body parts that share a common function but have a different structure
What is an analogous structure?
300
A group of organisms that look alike and can reproduce
What is a species?
400

The random part of evolution.

What is mutation?

400
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?
400

What is the random process in evolution? (Mutation or natural selections)

What is a mutation?

400

Tree that can be used to see the relationship between different species. 

What are cladograms? (Phylogenetic tree)

500
Two different organisms are alike, they share this in their bloodline
What is a Common Ancestor?
500
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?
500

What is NOT the random process in evolution? (Mutation or natural selections)

What is natural selection?

500
In embryology, the embryos are very similar to each other
What is a common ancestor?
500
It is important for new individuals to come into a population
What is evolution?