Types of Selection
Another term for artificial selection, meaning humans elect desired traits for organisms?
What is Selective Breeding?
A change in structure or behavior that makes it easier for an animal to survive in a certain environment.
What is an adaptation?
Define the word "Fossil"
Any trace or remains of a once-living organsim that has been preserved by natural processes.
This pioneering scientist studied Finches on the Galapagos islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The acronym GMO stands for....
What is a genetically modified organism?
When humans choose what animals should breed and when Vs. when nature chooses what animals breed.
What is Selective breeding vs. Natural breeding
The first condition for natural selection, also shared by artificial selection. Discusses the need for alternate versions of traits?
What is variation?
A fossil formed when dissolved minerals fill a mold and harden.
What is a cast?
Darwin studied size and shape of beaks in these types of birds.
What are finches?
A population of birds may have variations among their beaks because of this.
What are different sources of food.
Genetic engineering is different than artificial selection in that it involves the direct manipulation of....
What is DNA?
A trait that is beneficial to an organism and will likely be chosen by natural selection?
What is a favorable trait?
The hollow space that is left when sediment hardens around the remains of an organism and the remains dissolve.
What is a mold?
A highly polluted forest will allow for this type of moth to survive and reproduce?
What is a dark-colored moth?
This happens to a species over time, when a population does not adapt to environmental changes...
What is extinction?
The process through which some organisms are more successful at surviving and reproducing because of their adaptations.
What is natural selection.
Adaptations occur due to pressure or changes in the _________.
What is the environment?
This type of fossil shows evidence of an organisims activities.
What is a trace fossil?
Fish would be unable to take in oxygen and diffuse it into the blood without these.
What are gills.
The third condition for natural selection. also shared by artificial selection. Explains the need for traits being able to be passed on....
What is heredity?
How farmers engage in Artificial selection
What is creating crops that are bigger, resilient to pests, and more flavorful.
the vocab word that means change through time. The theory that existing life forms have evolved from earler forms over long periods of time.
What is Evolution?
Paleontology is...
What is the study of fossils?
The adaptation of hollow bones allows for this survival advantage.
What is lighter body weight for flying.