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Evolution
Natural Selection
Adaptations
Evidence for Evolution & More
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

Explain, in basic terms, what punctuated equilibrium is.

A theory of evolution that suggests that there are specific periods of intense speciation.

100
A group of organisms that look alike and can reproduce
What is a species?
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

What is Adaptation?

A variation in an organism that helps it survive

200
The first set of organisms that lived on Earth
What is Bacteria?
300
Name the scientist who proposed the theory of natural selection?

Charles Darwin

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?
400
Evolution can only occur is this is involved
What is Genetic Variety?
400

How is the theory of natural selection different from Lamarck's theory?

Lamarck said that organisms acquire traits during their lifetime and then pass them on to their offspring

400

An example of this is that some birds migrate in the winter in order to avoid low temperatures.

What is are behavioural adaptations?

400
Two organisms share a large amount of similar DNA
What are siblings?
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

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

What is an example of Physiological Adaptation?

500
In embryology, the embryos are very similar to each other
What is a common ancestor?