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BIOLOGY Y12 Blueprint of Life CLOZE PASSAGE No 1 Evolution Complete the following sentences using appropriate words or short phrases a) A change in organisms over time is called ……………………. Evolution b) Darwin wrote the book The ………………………………… Origin of Species c) Put forward the theory of “Acquired Characteristics are Inherited” Lamarck d) pH is an example of a …………………………….. condition in the environment Chemical f) Name of a selecting agent used to lower the rabbit population Myxoma virus g) An insecticide used to kill ticks and insects DDT h) Name given to organisms that suggest a link between 1 form and another Transitional form i) Name of a fish that could absorb oxygen and had bones in its fins so it could crawl Crossopterygian j) Archaeopteryx is a link between what 2 animal forms Bird and reptile k) Fast burial is needed to preserve organisms so as to form …………………. Fossils l) A footprint is an example of a cast or a mould? Mould m) The study of the distribution of plants and animals found on certain continents and not others is called? Biogeography n) The study of fossils is called? Palaeontology o) The limb found in a whale, seal, lizard and man is called? Pentadactyl p) An advanced technology that has changed scientific thinking about evolutionary relationships q) Able to reach an age where you can reproduce r) Type of evolution where similar adaptations are found in species that live in similar environments DNA Hybridisation Biologically fit/ survival of the fittest Convergent s) Another name for divergent evolution Adaptive radiation t) A type of moth that changed from pale to dark during the industrial evolution Peppered u) Put forward a theory similar to Darwin’s but relied heavily on geographic isolation Alfred Wallace v) The slow change of organisms over time is what type of evolution? Gradualism w) Episodes of stability followed by rapid changes gives rise to what type of evolution Punctuated equilibrium x) Islands that lie 1000km west of Equator Galapagos y) Type of reproduction that gives rise to variation in a population Sexual z) During the topic on evolution you performed a first hand investigation to model? Natural Selection