The Basics
A trait that helps an organism survive.
What is an adaptation?
Who is the father of Natural Selection?
Who is Charles Darwin?
A trait that helps an organism survive in its environment is called this.
What is an adaptation?
The area in which a population lives. Can have a direct impact on an organisms ability to survive.
The evironment
Which Part of VISTA deals with traits being passed on from generation to generation?
What is inheritable or inheritance.
a group of organisms that are similar in form and behavior that can reproduce and create fertile offspring.
What is species
Thick fur in arctic animals helps with this environmental challenge.
What is cold temperature?
This happens when many organisms fight for limited resources.
All the genes present within a population in referred to as...
What is gene pool
The preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms are called this.
What are fossils?
Adaptations develop over this amount of time.
What is many generations or a long time.
When a species can no longer survive and disappears from Earth, it is called:
What is extinction?
What organisms will do if they have beneficial traits.
Examining early stages of development in these structures provides evidence of common ancestor?
What are embryos?
The source of new traits in a population is usually:
What is from mutations?
A mutation for pesticide resistance appears in an insect population slowly increases over many generations. What part of VISTA does this represent?
Time
This process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce better than other similar organisms within that population.
What is Natural Selection?
Body structures that are similar because of shared ancestry are called these.
What are homologous structures
A polar bear’s white fur is an example of what type of adaptation?
What is Structural Adaptation?
Fitness is measured as an organisms ability to do what......
Survive and Reproduce