Embryology
This is the science that studies how animals grow and develop before they are born.
What is embryology?
These are preserved remains or traces of living things from long ago.
What are fossils?
What is natural selection?
What is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce?
What is an adaptation?
What is a trait that improves an organism's ability to survive and reproduce?
What is the gradual change in the characteristics of living organisms over multiple generations
What is evolution?
This is the name for an animal or human in the early stages of development before birth.
What is an embryo?
What do scientists infer from anatomical similarities between fossils and modern species?
What are evolutionary relationships?
Define genetic variation.
What is the differences in DNA among species?
Give a specific example of a physical adaptation in animals.
What is camouflage? Beak type? Color of fur?
What is a process where organisms better adapt to their environment?
What is Natural Selection?
Embryos of different animals often look very similar at this stage of life.
What is the fetus (or early stage development)?
How does sedimentary rock contribute to fossil formation?
What is it provides the layer of rock fossils are formed in?
This phrase describes how the best-adapted organisms are more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is "survival of the fittest"?
What three things does an organism need to survive?
What is shelter, food and protection?
What is a specific, heritable characteristic or feature of an organism?
What is a trait?
What is the significance of transitional fossils?
What are they show evolutionary change over time?
Studying embryos helps scientists learn about this biological process.
What is evolution?
This famous scientist developed the theory of natural selection after studying animals in the Galápagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Wat type of adaptations are actions or behaviors that an organism exhibits to survive and reproduce, such as migration, hibernation, or the way an animal hunts or defends itself?
What are behavioral adaptations?
What are a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes and producing offspring?
What are species?
The more stages of development two embryos share, the more likely they share this.
What is a common ancestor?
A bird’s wing and a human arm have similar bones, showing they may have come from this.
What is a common ancestor?
How can environmental changes influence natural selection?
What is altering survival and reproduction rates?
What type of human activity impacts the adaptation of species?
What can cause rapid changes in environments?
What means no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives?
What is extinction?