Biology Chapter 2

Question 1

Observations Darwin made:

Answer 1

Individual Variation, Overproduction of Offspring

Question 2

Inferences Darwin made:

Answer 2

Unequal Reproductive Success, Favorable Traits will Thrive

Question 3

What was the mechanism of evolution Darwin proposed?

Answer 3

Natural Selection

Question 4

Properties of living things:

Answer 4

Order, evolutionary adaptation, growth and development, regulation, energy processing, response to the environment, reproduction

Question 5

Organization of living things

Answer 5

Order

Question 6

Maintaining a stable internal environment

Answer 6

Regulation

Question 7

allows a newly fertilized egg (zygote) to form a complete organism

Answer 7

Development

Question 8

Enables an increase in size in an organism from birth to adulthood

Answer 8

Growth

Question 9

Bringing in energy and transforming it to a form useful for the organism

Answer 9

Energy processing

Question 10

Responding to environmental stimuli

Answer 10

Response to the environment

Question 11

The ability to continue the species

Answer 11

Reproduction

Question 12

Gaining new traits that best suit the species to its environment

Answer 12

Evolutionary adaptation