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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?