1. Jeopardy!
Evolution
Edition

2. Evolution Vocabulary

3. Evidence for Evolution

4. Microevolution

5. Speciation

6. Taxonomy

7. Unit 8 Jeopardy
Evolution
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Evidence for
Evolution
Microevolution
Speciation
Taxonomy
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Final Jeopardy!

8. Daily Double
Daily Double!

9. This is the definition of evolution.
Daily Double Question
This is the definition of evolution.

10. What is “a change in gene frequency over time”?
Daily Double Answer
What is “a change in gene frequency over time”?

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12. $200 Question
This refers to an inherited characteristic that improves an organism’s ability to survive.

13. $200 Answer
What is an adaptation?

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15. This is the less formal term for natural selection.
$300 Question
This is the less formal term for natural selection.

16. What is “survival of the fittest”?
$300 Answer
What is “survival of the fittest”?

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18. $400 Question
This occurs when organisms are selected by humans based on traits that humans desire.

19. What is artificial selection?
$400 Answer
What is artificial selection?

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21. This refers to more primitive features that appear in older fossils.
$500 Question
This refers to more primitive features that appear in older fossils.

22. What is an ancestral trait?
$500 Answer
What is an ancestral trait?

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24. $100 Question
This is a piece of evidence for evolution that looks at remains of organisms and organizes them in some specific way.

25. What is the fossil record?
$100 Answer
What is the fossil record?

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27. $200 Question
This piece of evidence for evolution discusses geographic locations of organisms and the similarities they have.

28. What is geographic distribution?
$200 Answer
What is geographic distribution?

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30. Daily Double
Daily Double!

31. Daily Double Question
This piece of evidence for evolution discusses homologous, analogous, and vestigial structures of organisms.

32. What is comparative anatomy?
Daily Double Answer
What is comparative anatomy?

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34. $400 Question
This piece of evidence for evolution discusses comparisons in development of different organisms.

35. What is comparative embryology?
$400 Answer
What is comparative embryology?

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37. $500 Question
Comparative biochemistry is a piece of evidence for evolution that looks at the comparisons of this in different organisms.

38. $500 Answer
What is DNA?

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40. Daily Double
Daily Double!

41. All of the alleles in a population make up this.
Daily Double Question
All of the alleles in a population make up this.

42. Daily Double Answer
What is the gene pool?

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44. $200 Question
This refers to any change in gene frequencies that occur due to chance.

45. $200 Answer
What is genetic drift?

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47. $300 Question
This refers to the study of evolution looking at individual populations over time.

48. What is microevolution?
$300 Answer
What is microevolution?

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50. $400 Question
This refers to a type of genetic drift that occurs when something has caused the population to dramatically lessen in size.

51. $400 Answer
What is bottlenecking?

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53. $100 Question
This term refers to a group of organisms that can mate together and reproduce fertile offspring.

54. $100 Answer
What is a species?

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56. This process occurs when new species are formed.
$200 Question
This process occurs when new species are formed.

57. $200 Answer
What is speciation?

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59. $300 Question
When two groups of organisms can no longer reproduce with one another to produce fertile offspring due to mating differences, they are said to be _________ isolated.

60. What is reproductively?
$300 Answer
What is reproductively?

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62. This is the age of the Earth.
$100 Question
This is the age of the Earth.

63. $100 Answer
What is 4.5/4.6 billion years?

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65. This theory helps to explain how eukaryotic cells came into existence.
$500 Question
This theory helps to explain how eukaryotic cells came into existence.

66. What is the Endosymbiosis Theory?
$500 Answer
What is the Endosymbiosis Theory?

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68. This refers to the identifying, naming, and classifying of organisms.
$100 Question
This refers to the identifying, naming, and classifying of organisms.

69. $100 Answer
What is taxonomy?

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71. $200 Question
When naming a species, scientists give the species a binomial name, given from these two categories of classification for the organism.

72. What is genus and species?
$200 Answer
What is genus and species?

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74. This is the domain that we are a part of.
$300 Question
This is the domain that we are a part of.

75. $300 Answer
What is Eukarya?

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77. $400 Question
This is the branching tree that names different characteristics of organisms and shows their relationship to one another.

78. $400 Answer
What is a cladogram?

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80. $500 Question
These are the 8 categories of classification of living things, given in order from broadest to most specific.

81. What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
$500 Answer
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?

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83. Final Jeopardy Topic
Darwin

84. Final Jeopardy Question
Explain the following about Darwin:
Where he did his research
What his research about finches was on
What his research on finches told us about nature – relating and leading to the theory of evolution

85. Size of finch bird beaks
Final Jeopardy Answer
Galapagos Islands
Size of finch bird beaks
Size of beak related to food sources – they had to adapt to their environment to be able to eat – survival of the fittest…

86. Thank you for playing!