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Evidence of Evolution
Theory of Evolution
Macro-Evolution
Vocab
Classification
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2. He traveled to the Galapagos Islands on the HMS Beagle and observed similar species suited to their particular environment.
A 100

3. Who is Charles Darwin?
A 100

4. This theory supports evolution and explains why islands have a large number of species found nowhere else
A 200

5. What is the Plate Tectonic Theory?

6. He proposed that giraffes got their long necks from stretching them.
(the idea of use and disuse)
A 300

7. Who is Lamarck?
A 300

8. These 4 branches of science help to support the theory of evolution

9. What is embryology, anatomy, palentology, and molecular biology?

10. Process by which individuals better suited to their environment can survive and reproduce most successfully.
A 500

11. Natural Selection or Survival of the Fittest?
What is
Natural Selection or Survival of the Fittest?
A 500

12. A long, slow change in organisms over long periods of time.
B 100

13. What is Evolution?
B 100

14. Any inherited trait or characteristic that increases an organism’s chances for survival.
B 200

15. What is Adaptation?
What is adaptation?
B 200

16. A sudden change in the sequence of DNA
B 300

17. What is a Mutation?
B 300

18. The combined genetic make-up of ALL the members of a population.

19. What is a Gene Pool?
B 400

20. A process in which HUMANS choose the most desirable traits of a population for breeding purposes.

21. What is Artificial Selection?
B 500

22. Preserved or mineralized remains of organisms usually found in sedimentary rock.

23. What are Fossils?
C 100

24. (Example: Human arm/Bat wing)
Structures that have similar embryological origin and structure but are adapted for different purposes
(Example: Human arm/Bat wing)
C 200

25. Homologous Structures?
What are
Homologous Structures?
C 200

26. Geographical Distribution Homologous Structures Vestigial Organs
Fossil Records
Geographical Distribution
Homologous Structures
Vestigial Organs
Similarities in Embryology
C 300

27. What is
Evidence of Evolution?
C 300

28. DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
Place A Wager
C 400

29. Appendix in Humans
Leg Bones in Whales
C 400

30. What are examples of Vestigial Structures?

31. The early stages of development in organisms in which there are many similarities among different species.
C 500

32. What is Embryology?
C 500

33. This may happen if a species lacks the variations necessary to adapt to a changing environment.

34. What is Die and Become Extinct?

35. (ex: Eastern and Western Meadowlarks)
Two populations are capable of interbreeding but have differences in courtship rituals or other reproductive strategies that involve behavior.
(ex: Eastern and Western Meadowlarks)
D 200

36. What is Behavioral Isolation?
D 200

37. Two populations are separated by geographic barriers such as rivers, mountains, or other bodies of water.
D 300

38. What is Geographic Isolation?
D 300

39. This happens when a population is separated and has low gene flow, which eventually results in 2 different species
D 400

40. What is Speciation?
D 400

41. This historical event in England caused tree trunks and buildings to blacken with soot allowing for birds and other predators to hunt the light-colored moths more easily.
D 500

42. The Industrial Revolution?
What is
The Industrial Revolution?
D 500

43. A Swedish botanist that developed a two-word naming system
(Science of Taxonomy)
E 100

44. Who is Linnaeus?
E 100

45. The broadest, largest category of organisms with the fewest of traits in common

46. What is Kingdom?
E 200

47. A Genus is composed of a number of these
The most specific level of classification in which organisms have the most traits in common
A Genus is composed of a number of these
E 300

48. What is Species?
E 300

49. The 2-word scientific naming of an organism

50. Binomial Nomenclature?
What is
Binomial Nomenclature?
E 400

51. The two levels of classification used to name an organism

52. What is
Genus and Species?
E 500

53. These are the 3 domains of life

54. What are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya?
F 100

55. fur color shape of teeth beak sizes shapes in shells
Differences such as
fur color shape of teeth
beak sizes shapes in shells
F 200

56. What is Variation?
F 200

57. This process reduces genetic variation
F 300

58. What is a Genetic Drift?
F 300

59. The two main sources of genetic variation

60. What is genetic recombination and mutations?
F 400

61. This is the most accurate way to classify organisms

62. What is
DNA analysis?
F 500

63. The Final Jeopardy Category is: TAXONOMY
Please record your wager.

64. What scientists believe might explain why many bones of fossil vertebrates are similar to those in living vertebrates.

65. What is a
Common Ancestor?

66. Thank You for Playing Jeopardy!