Evolution 1
The process in which a species has changed over time is known as this.
What is evolution?
He is known as the Father of Evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
The ability of an individual to survive and reproduce is known as this.
What is fitness?
Forming a new species is called
What is Speciation?
A place an organism lives which provides food, shelter, and climate.
What is habitat?
Similar structures that evolved from a common ancestor such as bones humans, cats, bats, and whales have in common.
What are Homologous Structures?
Scientist who came after Darwin and cleared up how traits were passed down to offspring.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an adaptation?
Darwin was from the 1800's. What part of modern science did he lack knowledge of in order to better explain how traits were passed down from parent to offspring?
What is genetics?
A record of Earth changing over a long period of time
What is fossil record?
What characteristics did Darwin observe about the finches on the Galapagos Islands?
What are their beaks? They adapted to different food sources.
What is the function of Antibiotics?
What is to kill or slow the growth of bacteria?
A diagram that shows relationships between organisms and their traits
What is a branching tree?
What is not complete because we don't know all the species on earth?
What is Tree of Life?
What ship did Charles Darwin sail on for 5 years?
What is HMS Beagle?
Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring?
What is Natural Selection?
If a small number of dark mice are on a dark substrate are they more or less likely to reproduce?
What is more?
Pesticides can be used to control a variety of pests, such as insects, weeds, rodents, bacteria, fungi, etc. Over time many pesticides have gradually lost their effectiveness because pests have developed resistance – a significant decrease in sensitivity to a pesticide, which reduces the field performance of these pesticides.What is this called?
What is pesticide resistance?
What type of rock can contain fossils?
What is sedimentary?
What is DNA?
Which condition had the greatest impact on the emergence of new species in Earth's history?
What is Mass Extinction?
A group of organisms that can mate with each other to produce fertile offspring is called a
What is species?
A group of individuals of the same species?
What is population?
Animals and plants can change as a ______________ but not as an individual.
species
A mistake or change that occurs in the DNA sequence is called a ______________________.
What is a mutation?