Grade 11 University Biology – Unit 3 Evolution – Jeopardy 1 DarwinAdaptationEvolution Evidence Natural and Artificial Selection Theory of Evolution

Darwin published this book in 1859

What is The Origin of Species?

It is why organisms compete for limited resources

What is “organisms produce more offspring than can survive?”

It is what individuals with traits that helped them survive in their local environments do

What is “pass the survival traits to their offspring?”

Darwin’s theory that natural selection does not demonstrate progress; rather, it merely results from a species’ ability to survive local conditions at a specific time

What is Descent with Modification?

Darwin observed that populations of this species of bird specialized over time to use the resources offered by their particular Galapagos Island habitat …an example of Adaptive Radiation

What are Finches?

This type of structural adaptation is illustrated by the viceroy butterfly looking very similar to the monarch butterfly

What is MIMICRY?

A change in the DNA of an organism

What is a MUTATION?

It happens when a mutation occurs in a somatic cell

What is “the mutation disappears from the population when the organism dies?”

A structure, behaviour or physiological process that helps an organism survive and reproduce in a particular environment

What is an ADAPTATION?

It is where some genetic information is expressed

What is the PHENOTYPE?

Homologous structures are similar because they were inherited from this

What is a COMMON ANCESTOR?

The fossil record, biogeography, anatomy, embryology and relationships in DNA all provide evidence of this

What is EVOLUTION?

The study of the past and present geographical distribution of species populations

What is BIOGEOGRAPHY?

This cell type first appeared in the fossil record 3.8 to 3.5 BYA

What are PROKARYOTIC CELLS?

A fossil that shows intermediary links between groups of organisms and shares characteristics common to two now separate groups

What is TRANSITIONAL FOSSIL?

Environmental conditions that select for certain characteristics of individuals and select against other characteristics

What is SELECTIVE PRESSURE?

In farming, it is easier to manage this types of field with only one plant type

What is a MONOCULTURE?

Selective breeding of this wild plant has been used to create many common foods including broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts

What is the WILD MUSTARD PLANT?

The process by which characteristics of a population change over many generations as organisms with heritable traits survive and reproduce, passing their traits to offspring

What is NATURAL SELECTION?

It occurs when humans exert pressure on natural processes to select organisms for certain and desired traits

What is ARTIFICIAL SELECTION?

It is the study of ancient life through by examining fossils

What is PALEONTOLOGY?

The idea, whose “name” was first used by John Spencer, that the organisms that are the fittest leave the most offspring, so those organisms win the struggle

What is SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST?

An idea that body parts that are not used or become unnecessary for survival eventually disappear

What is USE and DISUSE?

Charles Lynch suggested this theory geological changes are slow, continuous and operate at the same rates both past and present

What is UNIFORMITARIANISM?

The two British naturalists who, although working separately, at nearly the same time provided a similar theory to explain how species change over time

What are CHARLES DARWIN and ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE?