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Evolution Jeopardy
Aka Who’s relative is a monkey?
• After Charles Darwin saw similar but
different species on the Galapagos
Islands, he wondered if they could have
been this thousands of years earlier.
• What are the same species?
• Chucky realized all animals in a species
are this.
• What is different?
• How species on the different Galapagos
Islands compared.
• What is close, but not the same?
• One of the bird adaptations Darwin noted.
• What is beak shape?
• Different species of tortoises on nearby
islands caused Darwin to think this about
the tortoises’ ancestors.
• What is the same species?
• Darwin’s phrase for evolution.
• What is “Natural Selection” or “Survival of
the Fittest”?
• What happened in Darwin’s life that
caused him to come up with “Natural
Selection”.
• What is observing many species in
different places?
• Major concept in Lamarck’s view of
evolution.
• What is “ body structure can change
according to actions of the organism”?
• Cutting the wings off 50 generations of
fruit flies and then having the 51st
generation grow long wings disapproves
this theory.
• What is Lamarck’s theory of “inheritance of
acquired characteristics”?
• The reason Darwin did not publish his
theory right away.
• What is contradicted fundamental scientific
belief at the time?
• Method farmers and ranchers use to
breed the best plants and livestock.
• What is artificial selection?
• Darwin’s phrase for organisms thriving and
passing on inherited adaptations.
• What is “survival of the fittest”?
• Name for unused pelvis and femur bones
in a whale.
• What is vestigial?
• All the genetic information of a particular
population.
• What is the “gene pool” or “gene type”?
• Change in the sequence of DNA.
• What is a mutation?
• Many different phenotypes in a population
are caused by this.
• What is sexual reproduction?
Jeopardy Round
• Two main sources of genetic variation
• What are mutations and gene shuffling?