Fill in the blank using the vocabulary terms. variation, nonrandom, genotype, natural selection, common ancestor, phenotype, adaptation, mutation, interbreed, random, Natural selection. could not occur without ______________________ among offspring. A ___________________ causes a change in the _______________ of an individual. This will in turn, cause a change in the _______________ that is expressed. A trait that makes a species better suited to survive in its environment is called a(n) _______________________. A species is an organism that has different features and cannot _______________________ with other organisms. All the evolutionary evidence including fossils point to organisms having a(n) ___________________________. Natural selection is the _______________ selection of ________________ mutations.

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Fill in the blank using the vocabulary terms.

variation, nonrandom, genotype, natural selection, common ancestor, phenotype, adaptation, mutation, interbreed, random, Natural selection.

could not occur without ______________________ among offspring. A ___________________ causes a change in the _______________ of an individual. This will in turn, cause a change in the _______________ that is expressed. A trait that makes a species better suited to survive in its environment is called a(n) _______________________. A species is an organism that has different features and cannot _______________________ with other organisms. All the evolutionary evidence including fossils point to organisms having a(n) ___________________________. Natural selection is the _______________ selection of ________________ mutations. 

 

Fill in the blanks to complete these statements from the introduction and film section of this lab.

________ Did Charles Darwin incorporate the idea of genes and mutation into his theory of natural selection? A gene mutation is a permanent alteration in the ___________ sequence that makes up an organism’s body. Evidence for evolution can be found in many branches of science. List three of these. 1. ____________________ 2. _____________________ 3. _____________________ Most of the time mutations are either ____________ or _____________. But, in rare cases, amutation can prove to be _________________ to an organism. Biologist Richard Dawkins has said, “Natural selection is the _____________ selection of _______________ mutations. ________________ What type of animal flourished after the dinosaurs died out? _______________ _______________ What type of structures are derived from a common ancestor but may have evolved different functions?
__________________ _________________ A structure in an organism that has lost all or most of its original function in the course of evolution.
A ________________ is composed of related individuals that resemble one another, are able to breed among themselves and produce fertile offspring.

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