Evolution

Question 1

What did Lamarck say?

Answer 1

The inheritance of acquired characteristics
Characteristics developed over an organisms life can be passed down through genes, so a giraffe has a small head but stretches to reach the leaves and it’s neck grows and this is passed on to offspring. Very very gradually however.

Question 2

What did Darwin say?

Answer 2

Natural selection
Small mutations cause variations within species that help it survive better, reproduce and pass down the alleles needed to survive

Question 3

Why was Darwin’s theory only gradually accepted?

Answer 3

Challenged God
Not enough evidence
Didn’t know about genes at the time

Question 4

How get 6 marks in a natural selection question

Answer 4

Mutation
Variation
Well adapted
Survive
Breed
Pass on alleles 

ALL IN CONTEXT

Question 5

What is grouping organisms called?

Answer 5

Classification

Question 6

What are the names of the smallest and the largest animal groups?

Answer 6

Species

Kingdom

Question 7

Members from the same offspring can do what?

Answer 7

Reproduce fertile offspring

Question 8

What are evolutionary trees and relationships?

Answer 8

How organisms have mutated and reproduced to form variation within a species and the links between these. it also shows how animals became extinct and what took their place in their kingdom.