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Darwin
Fossils
Natural Selection
Evolution
This and That
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The process by which populations change over many generations is called this_______.
What is evolution?
100
There are two different species that have similar patterns of early formation. This is the type of evidence.
What is embryological (developmental)?
100

If there are 2 salamanders of the same species, (but they do not look the same) this idea of natural selection can help explain this observation.

What is genetic variation?

100

When every member of many species get killed by a catastrophic event , this type of event has taken place.

What is mass extinction?

100

This is the name of the book that Darwin wrote to explain Natural Selection.

What is On the Origin of Species?

200
A group of organism of the same species that live in a specific area is called _________.
What is a population?
200
Some whales have "leg" bones which do not help in movement. This is why.
What is structure can lose all or most of their function over evolutionary time?
200

This is how natural selection is different from artificial selection.

What is in natural selection the organisms reproduce to be best suited for the environment, in artificial selection humans are involved?

200
Over time, finches that were born with beaks better suited to available food supply survived and reproduced more. This is why.
What is natural selection?
200

Not only did Darwin observe that the beaks of the finches on the Galapagos Island were different, he also noticed that this was different on the islands as well.

What is the food available for the finches to eat?

300
This is where you would find the oldest layer of rock.
What is on the bottom of the fossil record?
300
This piece of evidence of evolution allows a bat and cat to have which similarity (but very different functions).
What is common structure?
300

"The finches on the islands were unique based on their food" is an observation that this person might have made when he visited this place.

Who is Charles Darwin, the Galapagos Islands?

300
If there are not enough members of a species born with traits necessary to survive in a new environment after that environment has changed, this could take place.
What is extinction?
300

If organism A has a DNA sequence of AAT CCG ATG

organism B has AAT CCC ATG and 

organism C has ATC GTC ATC these two organisms have a more recent common ancestor.

What are organisms A and B?

400
This process involves the organism dying and getting covered, time passing and more layers cover the dead organism, and finally minerals seeping into the organism's body.
What is the formation of a fossil?
400
The fossils that are most closely related to present day species will be found here in the fossil record.
What is on the top?
400

This is why a hawk might only eat white mice and not black mice in an environment.

What is the hawk can see the white mice better?

400

This is the role of mutations in natural selection.

What is a mutation may result in an adaptive trait that makes an organism more likely to survive and reproduce?

400

The pepper moths that should be the most successful are the ones that do this.

What is adapt to their environment?

500
There has been the discovery of 2 modern-day species with very similar DNA. This type of evidence of evolution is used.
What is genetic evidence?
500
This provides evidence about the once living organisms, is more complete when transitional fossils are found, and can give evidence of extinction or mass extinction events.
What is the fossil record?
500

If there is an increase in predators and all members of a population die this has happened.

What is extinction?

500
Overproduction, genetic variation, selection, and adaptation are the 4 parts of this.
What is Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?
500

This is survival of the fittest.

What is when an organism is better adapted to the environment, which means they live longer and if they live longer they reproduce more?