Evolution
True or False: Individuals evolve during their lifetimes.
What is false?
The name for a trait that helps an organism survive.
What is beneficial?
Identify the process of speciation.
What is the process in which new species are created?
This animal adaptation involves blending in with its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
What is prokaryotic cells do not have a nucleus while eukaryotic cells do?
The similarity in bone structures of a human arm, whale flipper, and bat wing are examples of this evidence of evolution.
What are homologous structures?
This is another phrase used synonymously with natural selection.
What is "survival of the fittest"?
Fill in the blank. "In order for speciation to occur, a species must be ______________."
What is separated?
This animal adaptation involves various patterns on an organism's body to make it appear as something else.
What is mimicry?
This is the broadest level of taxonomy.
What is kingdom?
Structures like a whale’s pelvis and a human tailbone that no longer serve a purpose are called this.
What are vestigial structures?
Antibiotic resistance is an example of this evolutionary process.
What is natural selection?
Fill in the blank. "Once a species has been separated, eventually they will adapt differently because of _________________ factors."
This animal behavior is described as a time of rapid learning, usually taking place within the first couple hours after an organism's birth.
What is imprinting?
This is the most specific level of taxonomy.
What is species?
This is often referred to as the best evidence of evolution/common ancestry between different organisms.
What are DNA similarities?
This term is used to describe an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in a specific environment.
What is fitness?
Fill in the blank. "Eventually, after a species has been separated, they will accumulate adaptations until the point where they can no longer _______________."
What is interbreed?
This animal behavior is a type of learning that occurs when an organism "gets used to" something.
What is habituation?
To get an animal's binomial nomenclature, you have to combine these two taxa together.
What is genus and species?
This is considered the main driving force in evolution.
What is natural selection?
Natural selection acts on these inherited characteristics that help an organism survive and reproduce.
What are adaptations?
This is the key difference between allopatric and sympatric speciation.
What is allopatric speciation occurs in geographically separated groups while sympatric occurs while they are in the same area?
This animal behavior occurs when an organisms responds to an external stimuli.
What is taxis?
If two organisms belong to the same order, they also belong to these same taxa.