Hypotheses
Selection
Evolution
Evidence
Misc
100
An educated prediction, sometimes structured into an IF/THEN statement.
What is a hypothesis?
100
How likely you are to survive and reproduce.
What is Fitness?
100
The process by which populations change over time, and sometimes new species are created.
What is Evolution?
100
These layers of the fossil record contain the most complex fossils.
What are the top layers?
100
This scientist believed that evolution occurred due to descent with modification and natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
A test that is performed to test a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
200
The process by which organisms with better traits are more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is Natural Selection?
200
The process by which organisms adjusts to become better suited for its environment.
What is adaptation?
200
All living organisms possess this, and is 96% identical between humans and chimpanzees, but only ~50% identical between humans and fruit flies.
What is DNA?
200
When a species permanently disappears.
What is extinction?
300
This is the group in an experiment where something is altered.
What is an experimental group?
300
When male bucks fight each other to win over a female deer, this is an example of this type of selection.
What is sexual selection?
300
A random mistake that occurs in an organisms DNA.
What is a mutation?
300
This field of study looks at the varying stages of fetal development across many different animal species.
What is embryology?
300
This is the idea that all living things must come from other living things.
What is Biogenesis?
400
The independent variable in the following experiment "If I turn off the light switch, then the room will get darker.".
What is the light switch?
400
This is what corn looked like thousands of years ago. Due to farming, corn now looks like this. This is an example of this type of selection.
What is artificial selection?
400
Individuals cannot do this, but populations can.
What is evolve?
400
Organs or body parts that serve no purpose for an organism, but were useful to a common ancestor.
What are vestigial structures?
400
This scientist believed that evolution occured due to acquired characteristics during the life of an organism that could be passed down to their offspring.
Who is Lamarck?
500
The dependent variable in the experiment "If I turn on a name brand light bulb and a generic brand light bulb, then the name brand light bulb should stay on longer."
What is how long the light bulbs stay on?
500
Male peacock tails have gotten larger and more vibrant over time, and this type of selection is responsible.
What is sexual selection?
500
During the industrial revolution, birch trees began to turn black to due air pollution from burning coal. This resulted in peppered moths with this phenotype to grow in population.
What is the dark phenotype?
500
Anatomical structures with similar structure but different functions, that are likely connected to a common ancestor.
What are homologous structures?
500
This scientist disproved spontaneous generation and the word pasteurization was named after him.
Who is Louis Pasteur?