Vocab #2
Differences between individuals in the same species.
If a ostrilope has an armor level of one. What do you think is likely to happen to this ostrilope in an environment that has carnithons?
The ostrilope is more likely to die from carnithons due to its non-adaptive trait.
The surroundings or states in which an organism lives or operates.
What is the environment?
This bird was known to be studied by Charles Darwin.
What are Galapagos finches?
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is skin?
An organism's ability to survive and procreate in its environment.
What is fitness?
Newts are known to be poisonous, however some newts have deadly poison levels while other newts have less toxic poison. Compared to fifty generations ago newts have higher toxicity levels of poison. Why is that?
Predators adapted to lower poison levels/more predators became resistant to the poison.
A distinct characteristic of an organism.
What is a trait?
Darwin discovered this theory by artificially selecting traits and features and crossing birds with particular characteristics to create different offspring.
What is natural selection?
Mules have this many chromosomes.
What are 63 chromosomes?
An organism's visible traits/appearance.
What are phenotypes?
Ostrilopes have different fur levels if the temperature of the environment drops. What will likely happen to the fur levels of the ostrilopes after fifty generations?
The fur levels will increase as ostrilopes with higher fur levels survived longer and produced more offspring.
The process where organisms better adjusted to their environment survive longer and create more offspring.
What is natural selection?
Charles Darwin waited this long to publish his evolution and natural selection theory.
What is 20 years?
A human has this many chromosomes.
What are 46 chromosomes?
The passing of traits from the parents to the offspring.
What is heredity?
Giraffes have long necks to reach tall trees and attract mates. Over time trees grew taller, and the leaves became higher above the ground. Fifty generations after this change, what happened to the number of giraffes with long necks?
The amount of giraffes with long necks increased as they were able to reach the leaves and live longer than their short neck counterparts allowing them to produce more children.
The genetic body of a particular organism.
What are genotypes?
The phrase "survival of the fittest" was coined by this philosopher.
Who is English philosopher Herbert Spencer?
This is the capital of Papua New Guinea.
What is Port Moresby?
A group of similar organisms that are capable of procreating offspring.
Ostrilopes are different colors, some are green, and some are yellow. Over time the environment changes, and the area is a lot more yellow than green. Fifty generations after this change, what do you think happened to the number of green ostrilopes and yellow ostrilopes?
Due to the environmental change, yellow ostrilopes were better able to camouflage than green ostrilopes. This caused them to live longer and produce more offspring making the yellow color trait more common.
A stringy structure of nucleic acids and proteins is found in the nuclei of most live cells, holding genetic data in the form of genes.
What are chromosomes?
Charles Darwin appeared on this currency for 18 years. Bonus points if you include the value of the currency.
What is the British Pound/Pound?
This physicist established the wave theory of light.
Who was Christian Huygens?