The Father of Genetics
The process in which a species has changed over time is known as this.
What is evolution?
According to Charles Darwin the driving force of evolution.
What is natural selection?
What is Evolution?
Necessary for natural selection to occur
What is genetic variation?
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an adaptation?
Group of organisms that can reproduce and produce fertile offspring.
What are species?
What is The Galapagos Islands?
This term refers to the availability of different traits and alleles within a population.
What is variation?
The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful
What is survival of the fittest?
What is Molecular Biology?
If you start a population of mice that have approximately the same number of black, grey, and white mice, but at the end of two years there are mostly black mice left, what type of selection occurred?
What is Directional Selection?
The man that researched Natural Selection Alongside Charles Darwin, but received little to no credit.
Who is Alfred Russel Wallace?
Natural Selection can only happen at this level of organization.
What is a population?
Darwin's journey lasted how many years?
What is 5 years?
The concept that members of each species compete regularly for food, space, and other necessities is known as this.
What is the struggle for survival or competition?
An example of a vestigial structure.
Tailbone, ear muscles, wisdom teeth, appendix ....
Studying the distribution of organisms around the world to provide evidence of evolution.
What is biogeography?
During a tsunami, flooding causes about half of a population of hippos to be washed downstream and into the ocean. Hippos cannot swim; the ones washed away were simply in deeper water and couldn't get back to shore. This is an example of....
What is Bottleneck Effect? (Genetic Drift)
The name of the ship Darwin and his crew voyaged on?
What is the H.M.S. Beagle?
Rafflesia flowers producing a smell to attract flies is an example of what?
What is adaptation?
Some members of a population are more likely to survive changing environmental conditions and reproduce because they have different and superior traits. The presence of different traits within members of a species
What is variation?
Field of study that compares and contrasts embryos of various species
What is Comparative Embryology?
List 3 evidences of Evolution
biogeography, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, vestigial structures, homologous structures, fossil record, molecular biology, direct observation...
Published in 1859, Charles Darwin’s book _________ changed biology forever.
What is "The ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES"
Many of our household pets and produce that we consume are produced by this.
What is artificial selection?
There are a larger population of deer in the forest than in recent years. What will most likely happen to the forest/deer?
Overproduction of deer will cause the resources to quickly be used and leave the forest bare with not enough food for the deer.
The strongest and most factual evidence that scientists use for evidence of evolution.
What is molecular biology or DNA?
Natural Selection requires variation between individuals. It can increase genetic variation between individuals in a population.
What is a mutation?