Variation artificial and natural selection Charles Darwin structures & selections founding fathers
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What is variation
The differences in the physical traits among individuals within a group?
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What is artificial selection
Humans select individuals with the traits that are desired, then breed them.
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Who is Charles Darwin
Came up with the theory of evolution
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What is Sexual Selection
A mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with.
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Who is Alfred Wallace
Had the idea of evolution by natural selection.
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What is differences in the beaks of the finches
What differences or variation did Darwin see amongst the finches on the Galapagos Islands?
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What is natural selection
The environment is the source of selection.
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Who is Charles Darwin
Famous for finding the differences in the beaks of the finches on the Galapagos Islands
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What is Homologous structures
An organ or body part that appears in different animals and is similar in structure and location, but doesn't necessarily share the same purpose.
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Who is Charles Darwin
Founded the theory of evolution.
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What is the type of food they ate
What did Darwin later related the size of their beaks to?
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What is an animal experiencing a shortage of food and being forced to consume a different food
Common example of natural selection
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What is beaks
Charles Darwin found differences in the _____ of the finches on the Galapagos Islands
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What is Analogous Structures
Biological structures having similar or corresponding functions but not from the same evolutionary origin.
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Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Had the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime.
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What is dog breeding
Common example of artificial selection
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What is Directional Selection
A mode of natural selection in which an extreme phenotype is favored over other phenotypes, causing the allele frequency to shift over time in the direction of that phenotype.
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What is Stabilizing Selection
A type of natural selection in which the population means stabilizes on a particular non-extreme trait value.
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