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3. The elimination of a species from Earth

4. What is extinction
A 100

5. Type of reproduction isolation where are separated by natural barriers such as rivers or mountains.

6. What is geographic isolation

7. Type of reproductive isolation where reproductive
structures are physically
incompatible
A 300

8. What is mechanical isolation?

9. Type of reproduction isolation where organisms breed at different times of the year.

10. What is temporal isolation

11. Theory that states natural disasters such as floods and volcanic eruptions have happened often during Earth’s long history.
A 500

12. What is catastrophism?
A 500

13. Lamarck would have reported that these animals stretched their necks to reach the leaves.
B 100

14. What are giraffes?
B 100

15. Came up with the classification system we still use today.
B 200

16. Who is Linnaeus
B 200

17. High birth rates & limited resources would force life & death competition

18. Who is Malthus’
B 300

19. This scientist proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.

20. Who is Charles Darwin
B 400

21. Proposed all living organisms evolved towards perfection and complexity.
B 500

22. Who is Lamarck
B 500

23. Made up of all alleles from all individuals in a population
C 100

24. What is gene pool?
C 100

25. Two sources genetic variation comes from

26. What are mutations and recombination

27. The movement of alleles
between populations.
C 300

28. What is gene flow?
C 300

29. DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
C 400

30. Two different types of genetic drift

31. The bottleneck effect and founders effect

32. Type of sexual selection where females choose the male based on bright colors, dancing, or singing

33. What is intersexual selection

34. This means coming from ancestors with changes.
D 100

35. What is descent with modifications?

36. Vertebrate forearms are said to be this type of structures.

37. What are Homologous Structures
D 200

38. These are structures that are non functional in a present day organism, that were once functional in an ancestor.
D 300

39. What is vestigial?
D 300

40. Structures that perform a similar function, but are not similar in origin
D 400

41. What are analogous structures?
D 400

42. A DNA sequence that resembles a gene but seems to have no function (like vestigial structures)

43. What are pseudogenes?
D 500

44. The Galapagos are these types of land masses.

45. What is islands?
E 100

46. The Galapagos is nearest to this continent.

47. What is South America?
E 200

48. These large reptiles expressed different characteristics related to the vegetation they consumed.

49. What are tortoises?
E 300

50. Finches had different types of beaks adapted to their

51. What is type of food consumed?

52. The fossil evidence Darwin observed showed…

53. Species change over time.

54. Natural Selection can only act on…
F 100

55. Existing variation
F 100

56. Natural selection is sometimes referred to by this four-word description.

57. What is “survival of the fittest”?

58. This is a term that refers to any beneficial trait.

59. What is an adaptation?
F 300

60. Humans use this process to produce new types of cattle, plants, dog breeds etc.

61. What is artificial selection?

62. In order for natural selection to occur, the population must have a range of differences known by this term.
F 500

63. What is variation?
F 500

64. The Final Jeopardy Category is: Natural Selection
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Individuals that are better adapted and are able to produce more offspring, are said to have this to a high degree.
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What is fitness?
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