Evolution Vocabulary
Evidence for
Evolution
Microevolution
Speciation
Geologic Time Scale
Taxonomy
Unit 9 Jeopardy
Evolution
Vocabulary
Evidence for
Evolution
Microevolution
Speciation
Geologic
Time Scale
Taxonomy
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Final Jeopardy!
Daily Double
Daily Double Question
This is the definition of evolution.
Daily Double Answer
What is “a change in gene frequency over
time”?
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$200 Question
This refers to an inherited characteristic
that improves an organism’s ability to
survive.
$200 Answer
What is an adaptation?
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$300 Question
This is the less formal term for natural
selection.
$300 Answer
What is “survival of the fittest”?
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$400 Question
This occurs when organisms are selected
by humans based on traits that humans
desire.
$400 Answer
What is artificial selection?
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$500 Question
This refers to more primitive features that
appear in older fossils.
$500 Answer
What is an ancestral trait?
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$100 Question
This is a piece of evidence for evolution
that looks at remains of organisms and
organizes them in some specific way.
$100 Answer
What is the fossil record?
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$200 Question
This piece of evidence for evolution
discusses geographic locations of
organisms and the similarities they have.
$200 Answer
What is geographic distribution?
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Daily Double
Daily Double
Question
This piece of evidence for evolution
discusses homologous, analogous, and
vestigial structures of organisms.
Daily Double Answer
What is comparative anatomy?
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$400 Question
This piece of evidence for evolution
discusses comparisons in development of
different organisms.
$400 Answer
What is comparative embryology?
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$500 Question
The piece of evidence for evolution that
looks at the comparisons of nucleic acids
and proteins in different organisms.
$500 Answer
What is comparative biochemistry?
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Daily Double
Daily Double
Question
All of the alleles in a population make up
this.
Daily Double Answer
What is the gene pool?
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$200 Question
This refers to any change in gene
frequencies that occur due to chance.
$200 Answer
What is genetic drift?
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$300 Question
This refers to the study of evolution
looking at generation-to-generation
change.
$300 Answer
What is microevolution?
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$400 Question
This refers to a type of genetic drift that
occurs when a natural disaster or disease
has caused the population to dramatically
lessen in size.
$400 Answer
What is bottlenecking?
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$500 Question
A population can be in this type of
equilibrium if no evolution is occurring.
$500 Answer
What is Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
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$100 Question
This term refers to a group of organisms
that can mate together and reproduce
fertile offspring.
$100 Answer
What is a species?
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$200 Question
This process occurs when new species
are formed.
$200 Answer
What is speciation?
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$300 Question
When two groups of organisms can no
longer reproduce with one another to
produce fertile offspring due to mating
differences, they are said to be
_________ isolated.
$300 Answer
What is reproductively?
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$400 Question
When two groups of organisms can no
longer reproduce with one another to
produce fertile offspring due to being
physically separated, they are said to be
_________ isolated.
$400 Answer
What is geographically?
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$500 Question
____zygotic isolation can be seen in
horses and donkeys, due to their creation
of an infertile mule when mating.
$500 Answer
What is post-zygotic?
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$100 Question
This is the age of the Earth.
$100 Answer
What is 4.6 billion years?
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$200 Question
We are currently living in this era of time.
$200 Answer
What is the Cenozoic era?
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$300 Question
Earth’s early atmosphere did not have
free forms of this gaseous compound.
$300 Answer
What is oxygen?
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$400 Question
Petrified fossils are always found in this
type of rock.
$400 Answer
What is sedimentary rock?
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$500 Question
This theory helps to explain how eukaryotic
cells came into existence.
$500 Answer
What is the Endosymbiont Theory?
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$100 Question
This refers to the identifying, naming, and
classifying of organisms.
$100 Answer
What is taxonomy?
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$200 Question
When naming a species, scientists give
the species a binomial name, given from
these two categories of classification for
the organism.
$200 Answer
What is genus and species?
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$300 Question
This is the domain that we are a part of.
$300 Answer
What is Eukarya?
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$400 Question
This is the branching tree that names
different characteristics of organisms and
shows their relationship to one another.
$400 Answer
What is a cladogram?
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$500 Question
These are the 9 categories of classification of
living things, given in order from broadest to
most specific.
$500 Answer
What is Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum,
Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
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Final Jeopardy Topic
DARWIN
Final Jeopardy
Question
Explain the following about Darwin:
1. Where he did his research
2. What his research about finches was on
3. What his research on finches told us about
nature – relating and leading to the theory of
evolution
Final Jeopardy
Answer
1. Galapagos Islands
2. Size of finch bird beaks
3. Size of beak related to food sources – they
had to adapt to their environment to be able to
eat – survival of the fittest…
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