Evolution2

Question 0

What is Fitness?

Answer 0

Describes how well an organism can survive and reproduce in an environment

Question 1

What is Artificial selection?

Answer 1

Nature provides the variations and humans select those they find useful

Question 2

What is Survival of the Fittest?

Answer 2

The difference in rates of survival and reproduction

Question 3

What is Survival?

Answer 3

Reproducing and passing adaptions on to the next generation

Question 4

What is Natural Selection?

Answer 4

The process by which organisms with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring

Question 5

What is Adaption?

Answer 5

Any heritable characteristic that increases an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in its environment

Question 6

What is the Principle of Common Descendants by Charles Darwin?

Answer 6

All species living and extinct are descended from ancient common ancestors

Question 7

Biogeography, evidence of evolution is what?

Answer 7

Patterns in the distribution of living and fossil species tells us how modern organisms evolved from their ancestors

Question 8

What is Radioactivity, evidence of Evolution?

Answer 8

Allows for dating of rocks which suggest that Earth is about 4.5 billion years old

-Plenty of time for evolution to occur

Question 9

fossils, evidence of Evolution are what?

Answer 9

Discovered fossils from series that trace the evolution of modern species from extinct ancestors

Fossils have allowed comparison with present organisms