Evolution 1
Evolution 2
Evolution 3
Evolution 4
Evolution 5
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The process in which a species has changed over time is known as this.
What is evolution?
100
He is known as the Father of Evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
The ability of an individual to survive and reproduce is known as this.
What is fitness?
100
distantly related organisms evolve to become more similar
What is Convergent Evolution?
100
The oldest fossil are found in what part of rock?
What is the bottom layer?
200
Similar structures that evolved from a common ancestor such as bones humans, cats, bats, and whales have in common.
What are Homologous Structures?
200
Scientist who came after Darwin and cleared up how traits were passed down to offspring.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
200
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an adaptation?
200
Darwin was from the 1800's. What part of modern science did he lack knowledge of in order to better explain how traits were passed down from parent to offspring?
What is genetics?
200
A record of Earth changing over a long period of time
What is fossil record?
300
Preserved remains of ancient organisms
What are fossils?
300
This term refers to different traits and alleles within a population.
What is variation?
300
The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful
What is survival of the fittest?
300
This type of vestigial structure is found in our digestive system. This organ used to be used to digest cellulose for our ancient ancestors.
What is the appendix?
300
Probably contained CO2, CO, Nitrogen, Ammonia, Methane - But, No Oxygen!
What is the early atmosphere?
400
What characteristic did Darwin observe about the finches on the Galapagos Islands?
What are their beaks?
400
The concept of humans selecting desired traits in species.
What is Selective Breeding?
400
Structures that have no apparent function and appear to be residual parts from a past ancestor
What are Vestigial Structures?
400
Why did the population of moths change?
industrial revolution, smoke, trees turning black, the mutated black moths were able to survive and reproduce better and their population grew.
400
Snakes with small legs and your tail bone are examples of these
What are vestigial organs?
500
Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring?
What is Natural Selection?
500
The concept that members of each species compete regularly for food, space, and other necessities is known as this.
What is struggle to survive?
500
Pesticides can be used to control a variety of pests, such as insects, weeds, rodents, bacteria, fungi, etc. Over time many pesticides have gradually lost their effectiveness because pests have developed resistance – a significant decrease in sensitivity to a pesticide, which reduces the field performance of these pesticides.
What is pesticide resistance?
500
Darwin's traveled to the ___________ __________ on the __________ _____________ where he discovered divergent species which led him to his findings to support evolutionary theory.
What are
the Galpagos Islands and
the HMS Beagle?
500
collectively, all of the alleles of the population’s genes
What is a gene pool?
600
When an organism completely dies out.
What is Extinction??
600
when gene frequencies are changed by random events in a isolated population
What is Genetic Drift?
600
What are common ancestors?
600
Animals and plants can change as a ______________ but not as an individual.
species
600
A mistake or change that occurs in the DNA sequence is called a ______________________.
What is a mutation?
700
One bacterium engulfing another and passing that structure on
What is Endosymbiosis?
700
Body structures on different organisms that are similar in function but did not evolve from the same ancestor (bird wing and butterfly wing)
What are Analogous Structures?
700
(Abiogenesis)- The hypothesis that life arises regularly from non-living thing
What is Spontaneous Generation?
700
a structural adaptation that allows a species to blend in with its surroundings
What is camouflage?
700
They were prokaryotic (lacked nucleus), anaerobic (survived in absence of O2), heterotrophs that resemble types of bacteria alive today.
What are the First True Cells?