Scientists
Speciation
Natural Selection
Theory of Evolution
Misc.
100
Which scientist was responsible for genetics and pea plants?
Who is Gregor Mendel.
100
Name the 4 Isolating Mechanisms.
Reproductive Isolation Behavioral isolation Geographic Isolation Temporal Isolation
100
What is natural selection?
Organisms that are best adapted to an environment survive and reproduce more than others
100
What are the 5 examples for Evidence of Evolution?
Fossil Record Homologous body structures Vestigial organs Embryology Biochemical Evidence
100
What is Mr. Dose's first name?
Aaron
200
Who were the three scientists that dealt with Evolution?
Who were Alfred Wallace, Charles Darwin, and James Hutton.
200
Which type of isolation is when members of two populations cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring?
Reproductive Isolation
200
Name the 4 steps of Darwin's theory of natural selection.
Overproduction Variation Competition Selection
200
What is Evolution?
the process of change over time
200
What is a scientific theory?
A broad explanation that uses MANY lines of evidence Integrates many hypotheses and experimental data Not “just a theory”
300
What did Carl Linnaeus study?
What is taxonomy and classifying species.
300
Ex: rivers, mountains, lakes, oceans - Type of isolation?
Geographic Isolation
300
What is the step in which each species produces more offspring that can survive
overproduction
300
Describe Common Descent
All living organisms are related to one another
300
Weather forecast is an example of what? a.Hypothesis b.Law c.Theory
Hypothesis
400
Who studied the Galapagos islands?
Charles Darwin
400
Ex: flowers that release pollen at different times - Type of isolation?
Temporal Isolation
400
Explain the competition step.
Individuals compete for limited resources Food, water, space, mates Natural selection occurs through “survival of the fittest” Fitness: the ability to survive and reproduce Not all individuals survive to adulthood
400
What is it called when each living species has descended, with changes, from other species over time
Descent with modification
400
What is a scientific hypothesis?
Proposed explanation of a narrow set of phenomena Educated guess (use background knowledge)
500
Name the 7 Scientists.
Georges Cuvier Alfred Wallace Charles Darwin Gregor Mendel James Hutton Thomas Malthus Carl Linnaeus
500
Give and example of each type of isolation.
Reproductive Isolation Ex: house cat and a bobcat Behavioral isolation The sounds a cactus finch and a ground finch make Geographic Isolation Ex: rivers, mountains, lakes, oceans Temporal Isolation Ex: flowers that release pollen at different times
500
Who's theory of natural selection did we study the four steps for?
Charles Darwin
500
Describe Charles Darwin
Father of Evolution Proposed natural selection 5 year trip around the world Galapagos islands “Origin of species” Darwin observed finches
500
What is Sara's Birthday? Month/Day/Year
July 10, 2000.