Genetics & Traits
What material carries information from parents to offspring?
What is DNA?
What word means a group of similar organisms that can produce offspring?
What are Species?
What evidence shows organisms lived long ago and changed over time?
What are Fossils?
What process explains how organisms better suited to their environment survive and reproduce?
What is Natural Selection?
What pattern shows small changes over a long period of time?
What is Gradualism?
A bird's beak shape that helps it eat food is an example of what?
What is Adaptation?
What word means a process of change over time?
What is Evolution?
What evidence shows animals have similar bones or body parts?
What are similar body structures?
(homologous structures)
What happens when more offspring are born than can survive?
What is Overproduction?
What pattern shows short periods of rapid change followed by a little change?
What is Punctuated Equilibrium?
What word means differences between individuals of the same species?
What is Variation?
What do we call a characteristic passed from parents to offspring?
What is a Trait?
What evidence shows similarities in DNA and proteins?
What is Genetic Evidence?
What happens when organisms must fight for food, space, or resources?
What is Competition?
What term describes how fast evolution happens?
What is Rate of Change?
What do we call similar body parts in different animals that came from a common ancestor?
What are Homologous Structures?
What is the preserved remains or traces of an organism from the past?
What is a Fossil?
What record shows patterns of life over long periods of time?
What is the Fossil Record?
Name an example of natural selection?
What are...
Peppered Moths OR Long Giraffe Necks OR Darwin's Finches OR Insect Camouflage
Name an example pair of homologous structures?
What are
bird wings and insect wings OR human arm and whale flipper OR shark fin and dolphin fin OR butterfly wing and bat wing
What do we call an organism from which other organisms evolved?
What are Ancestors?
What terms means an organism's body structure or how its bones are arranged?
What is a Body Plan?
Name one type of evidence that supports evolution?
What is ...
Fossils OR DNA similarities OR Body Structures OR Early Development Patterns
Name one factor that affects natural selection?
What is ...
Overproduction OR Variation OR Competition OR Selection
What two patterns describe the rate of evolution?
What is gradualism and punctuated equilibrium?