Natural Selection
What abiotic selective pressure changed the substrate for the Rock Pocket Mice that made hunting easier for the biotic selective pressure?
What is a volcano?
This structure has no current function in an organism.
What is vestigial?
The names of the two freshmen guidance counselors
Who are Ms. Siemion and Ms. Stover?
A form of academic writing used often this semester to make a statement, back it up with facts, and use logic to explain your stance.
What is a CER?
A group of animals who are similar enough to one another that they can reproduce and their kids can also have kids
What is a species?
A characteristic or feature of an organism
What is a trait?
Where two nodes in a phylogenetic tree come together.
What is ancestral trait or common ancestor?
The first name of Mrs. Hoekman.
What is Rachel?
The acronym you shall use (and explain!) when asked for evidence of natural selection
What is VIDA?
When two populations of what was once a single species becomes so different that they are considered two different species
What is speciation?
Some examples include predation, climate, and availability of appropriate food sources
What is a selective pressure?
Same internal structure but may have different functions.
What is a homologous trait?
The date of our first day back after Christmas break
What is January 5?
The acronym used to describe the process of speciation
What is OINK?
When two populations of the same species diverage because they experience differences in this.
What is selective pressures?
A change in the frequency of a trait in a population--also, the last part of VIDA.
What is Adaptation?
Same function but different internal structure.
What is an analogous trait?
The official title/name of the principal at BBCHS
Who is Dr. Tingley?
The first name of Mr. Drake.
What is Paul?
Two bird populations that look very similar but have different mating calls and do not recognize each other any longer.
What is species?
What is part divided by whole times 100?
Similarities in DNA, homologous traits, embroylogical evidence, and fossil evidence.
What is evidence of evolution?
In order of appearance, the subjects assessed by the ACT
What is English, Math, Reading, and Science?
An abbreviation for the substance that makes up our genetic information
What is DNA?
What each letter of the ACRONYM OINK stands for.
What is One Species?; Isolation?; Natural Selection?; and Kids?