Evolution

Question 1

The process of change overtime

A change in the frequency of a gene or allele in a population overtime

Answer 1

Evolution

Question 2

“Father of Evolution”
Wrote the book “Origin of the Species”

Proposed a mechanism for evolution, natural selection

Answer 2

Charles Darwin

Question 3

Organisms that are best adapted to an environment to survive and produce more than others.

Explains how evolution happens

Occurs through survival of the fittest

Answer 3

Natural Selection

Question 4

Darwin’s theory of natural selection

Answer 4

1) Overproduction
2) Variation
3) Competition
4) Selection

Question 5

Each species produces more offspring that can survive

Result to struggle for life

Answer 5

Overproduction

Question 6

Each individual has unique combination of inherited traits

Answer 6

Variation

Question 7

An inherited trait that increases and organism’s chance of survival

Answer 7

Adaptation

Question 8

What is the importance of variation?

Answer 8

The more variation within an ecosystem, the higher chance of survival.

Question 9

Individuals compete for limited resources

Not all individuals survive to adulthood

Answer 9

Comepition

Question 10

The individuals with the best traits survive and have the opportunity to pass on its traits to an offspring

Answer 10

Selection

Question 11

T or F

Natural selection acts on the phenotype not the genotype

Answer 11

T

Question 12

T or F

Evolution occurs when good traits build up in a population over many generations and bad traits are eliminated by death

Answer 12

T

Question 13

Each living species has descended with changes from other species overtime

Answer 13

Descent with Modification

Question 14

All living organisms are related to one another

Answer 14

Common Descent