Characteristics of Living Things
All living things are made of these basic units of life
What are cells?
These are the islands that Charles Darwin visited during his five year journey and observed a variety of finches.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
Organisms pass these on to their offspring.
What are traits?
This is the process by which organisms in the wild inherit advantageous traits and tend to reproduce more successfully than other organisms.
What is natural selection?
When all members of a species die out.
What is extinction?
What is a stimulus?
This is the sailing vessel that Charles Darwin traveled aboard during his 5 year journey collecting specimens.
What is The Beagle?
This is a trait that an organism has to learn or train to have.
What is an acquired trait?
What is overproduction?
This is what might happen to a population of rabbits when a new predator moves into their environment.
The population might decrease.
These organisms, although they do many things living things do, are not considered living because they cannot reproduce on their own.
What are viruses?
In the book, On The Origin of Species, Darwin introduced this theory.
What is evolution by natural selection?
When humans cross two organisms to get a desirable trait in the offspring.
What is artificial selection?
Natural differences in traits.
What are variations?
Over generations and much time, adaptations become more common and genetic differences add up in the process of this.
What is natural selection and evolution?
This molecule controls the structure and function of cells.
What is DNA?
Darwin collected these animal specimens because he notices different ones on different islands had differently shaped beaks.
What are finches?
This earth science helped Darwin by the fossils he found that the rock strata he observed.
What is geology?
This is a source of a variation caused by changes to the base pairs in an organisms DNA?
What are mutations?
These changes can make it so a species with genetic variation can survive these types of changes.
What are environmental changes?
A single parent produces offspring identical to itself in a process called this:
What is asexual reproduction?
Charles Darwin quit this type of school to pursue being a naturalist, geologist, and explorer.
What is medical school?
This has a great influence on which organisms live and which organisms die. It includes a variety of limiting factors.
What is the environment?
This is an inherited trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
This is why inherited traits are passed on but acquired traits are not.
Acquired traits are not genetic and can't be passed along. Inherited traits are genetic.