100 200 300 400 500 EVOLUTION JEOPARDY! EVIDENCE PATTERNS POPULATION GENETICS DISRUPTION OF G.E. SPECIATION 100 200 300 400 500 JEOPARDY

100 – EVIDENCE THIS TYPE OF EVIDENCE EXPLAINS WHY AT CERTAIN TIMES DURING DEVELOPMENT VERTEBRATE SPECIES LOOK VERY SIMILAR CATEGORY 1

100 EMBRYOLOGY CATEGORY 1

200 – EVIDENCE THIS STRUCTURE EVOLVES INDEPENDENTLY IN UNRELATED SPECIES LIVING IN SIMILAR ENVIRONMENTS CATEGORY 1

200 ANALOGOUS STRUCTURES CATEGORY 1

300 – EVIDENCE THIS TYPE OF EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THE THEORY OF MICROEVOLUTION CATEGORY 1

300 BIOCHEMISTRY

400 – EVIDENCE THIS STRUCTURE WAS ONCE FUNCTIONAL IN AN ANCESTRAL ORGANISM CATEGORY 1

400 VESTIGIAL

500 – EVIDENCE THIS LAW STATES THAT WITHIN ROCK LAYERS THE OLDEST LAYER IS ON THE BOTTOM & YOUNGEST LAYER IS ON TOP CATEGORY 1

500 LAW OF SUPERPOSITION

100 – PATTERNS THIS PATTERN FORMS MULTIPLE SPECIES FROM ONE COMMON ANCESTOR CATEGORY 2

100 ADAPTIVE RADIATION

200 – PATTERNS THIS PATTERN EXPLAINS WHY TWO RELATED SPECIES BECOME LESS & LESS SIMILAR

200 DIVERGENT EVOLUTION

300 – PATTERNS THIS PATTERN EXPLAINS WHY WHALES & SHARKS BOTH HAVE SIMILAR ADAPTATIONS TO HELP THEM SURVIVE IN THE OCEAN BUT ARE UNRELATED SPECIES

300 CONVERGENT EVOLUTION

400 – PATTERNS THIS PATTERN EXPLAINS WHY BEES & FLOWERS EVOLVE TOGETHER OR MUTUALLY

400 COEVOLUTION

500 – PATTERNS DARWIN’S FINCHES ARE AN EXAMPLE OF THIS TYPE OF PATTERN OF EVOLUTION CATEGORY 2

500 ADAPTIVE RADIATION

100 – POPULATION GENETICS THIS IS THE TOTAL GENETIC INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN A POPULATION CATEGORY 3

100 GENE POOL

200 – POPULATION GENETICS THIS IS THE STABILITY OF ALLELE FREQUENCIES ACROSS GENERATIONS

200 HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM

300 – POPULATION GENETICS THIS PROCESS EXPLAINS HOW EVOLUTION OCCURS WITHIN GENOTYPES RATHER THAN PHENOTYPES

300 NATURAL SELECTION

400 – POPULATION GENETICS GIVE THE EQUATION FOR FINDING THE PHENOTYPIC FREQUENCY

400 # OF INDIVIDUALS WITH A CERTAIN PHENOTYPE DIVIDED BY THE TOTAL # OF INDIVIDUALS

500 – POPULATION GENETICS NAME THREE THINGS THAT MUST OCCUR IF ALELLE FREQUENCIES ARE TO REMAIN THE SAME

500 NO MUTATIONS, NO GENE FLOW, LARGE POPULATION, RANDOM MATING, NO SELECTION

100 – DISRUPTION OF GENETIC EQUILIBRIUM THIS PROCESS EXPLAINS HOW GENES FLOW FROM ONE POPULATION TO ANOTHER

100 MIGRATION

200 – DISRUPTION OF GENETIC EQUILIBRIUM THIS PROCESS EXPLAINS WHY ORGANISMS MATE WITH OTHER ORGANISMS WITH SIMILAR PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

200 NON-RANDOM MATING

300 – DISRUPTION OF GENETIC EQUILIBRIUM THIS TYPE OF SELECTION DESCRIBES HOW THE AVERAGE FORM OF A TRAIT IS MORE FIT THAN THE EXTREME FORMS

300 STABILIZING SELECTION

400 – DISRUPTION OF GENETIC EQUILIBRIUM THIS TYPE OF GENETIC DRIFT OCCURS WHEN A POPULATION IS DRAMATICALLY EFFECTED BY A NATURAL DISASTER OR HUMAN IMPACT

400 POPULATION BOTTLENECK

500 – DISRUPTION OF GENETIC EQUILIBRIUM THE PEPPERED MOTH CHANGING IN COLORATION AFTER THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS TYPE OF SELECTION

500 DIRECTIONAL SELECTION

100 -- SPECIATION THIS CONCEPT DEFINES A SPECIES ACCORDING TO ITS STRUCTURE & APPEARANCE

100 MORPHOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF SPECIES

200 -- SPECIATION NAME ONE LIMITATION OF THE BIOLOGICAL SPECIES CONCEPT

200 NOT HELPFUL FOR THOSE ORGANISMS ALREADY EXTINCT OR ASEXUAL

300 -- SPECIATION THIS TYPE OF ISOLATION IS THE PHYSICAL SEPARATION OF POPULATIONS

300 GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION

400 -- SPECIATION THIS RATE OF SPECIATION OCCURS DURING PERIODS OF RAPID GENETIC CHANGE

400 PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM

500 -- SPECIATION DEFINE SPECIES

500 A GROUP OF ORGANISMS OF A SINGLE TYPE THAT ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FERTILE OFFSPRING