Evolution Vocabulary Evidence for Evolution Microevolution Speciation Taxonomy

Evolution Vocabulary

Evidence for Evolution

Microevolution

Speciation

Taxonomy

Unit 8 Jeopardy Evolution Vocabulary Evidence for Evolution Microevolution Speciation 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 500 Taxonomy 100 400 500 Final Jeopardy!

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Daily Double Question This is the definition of evolution.

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

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

$200 Answer What is an adaptation?

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

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

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

$400 Answer What is artificial selection?

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

$500 Answer What is an ancestral trait?

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

$100 Answer What is the fossil record?

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

$200 Answer What is geographic distribution?

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

Daily Double Answer What is comparative anatomy?

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

$400 Answer What is comparative embryology?

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

$500 Answer What is DNA?

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

Daily Double Answer What is the gene pool?

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

$200 Answer What is genetic drift?

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

$300 Answer What is microevolution?

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

$400 Answer What is bottlenecking?

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

$100 Answer What is a species?

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

$200 Answer What is speciation?

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$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.

$300 Answer What is reproductively?

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$100 Question This is the age of the Earth.

$100 Answer What is 4. 5/4. 6 billion years?

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

$500 Answer What is the Endosymbiosis Theory?

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

$100 Answer What is taxonomy?

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

$200 Answer What is genus and species?

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

$300 Answer What is Eukarya?

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

$400 Answer What is a cladogram?

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

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

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Final Jeopardy Topic DARWIN

Final Jeopardy Question Explain the following about Darwin: 1. Where he did his research 2. What his research about finches was on 3. What his research on finches told us about nature – relating and leading to theory of evolution

Final Jeopardy Answer 1. Galapagos Islands 2. Size of finch bird beaks 3. Size of beak related to food sources – they had to adapt to their environment to be able to eat – survival of the fittest…

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