Evolution
This is a system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence.
What is a theory?
This is the process by which organisms that inherit advantageous traits tend to reproduce more successfully than other organisms do.
What is Natural Selection?
This is a trait that improves chances of survival and reproduction for a group of individuals in a population.
What is an adaptation?
These provide evidence for the history of life in the geologic past.
What is a fossils?
A theory that refers to the process by which populations change over time.
What is evolution?
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
Who is Charles Darwin?
An example of this would be a turtle laying more eggs than will hatch and survive to adulthood.
What is overproduction?
This is the most recent species from which two different species have evolved.
What is a common ancestor?
Lamarck incorrectly thought these traits could be passed on to their offspring.
What are acquired traits?
The most fit person in the middle school.
Who are Mrs. Lipscomb, Mrs. Minor and Mrs. (Nurse) Kadivar?
This is the name of the ship that Darwin traveled on during his 5 year journey around the world.
What is the HMS Beagle?
This increases the chances of a species survival and decrease their chances of becoming extinct due to changes in the environment.
What is genetic variation?
Two species are more closely related if they have similar sequences of these determined by their DNA.
What are amino acids?