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Mr. Biando's Lab

Mr. Biando's Lab - How does evolution happen?

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Charles Darwin The scientist that hypothesized that the Galapagos Island finches were decended from South American finches.
Galapagos Islands Islands west of Ecuador, South America, that Charles Darwin visited and from which he collected specimens.
HMS Beagle The ship that Charles Darwin made his five year voyage on.
Their beaks What was different with each species of Galapagos finches.
Trait A genetically determined characteristic.
Selective Breeding The human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired characteristics.
population A grouping of organisms of the same species that inhabit the same location.
An Essay on the Principle of Population. A book by Thomas Malthus that explains that populations are limited by starvation, disease, competition, and predation.
Principles of Geology A book by Charles Lyell that helped Darwin realize that the Earth was much older than anyone had imagined.
Natural selection The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less well adapted individuals do; a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. The book Charle Darwin wrote and published.
Overprodution, inherited variation, struggle to survive, and successful reproduction. The four parts of natural selection.
overproduction Why some organisms have multiple offspring.
inherited variation Why no two organisms can be identical.
struggle to survive The stress that organisms face in their environment such as predators, competition for food and shelter, and disease that can kill them.
successful reproduction Why the organisms who are best adapted to their environments survive.
genetics A recently discovered branch of science that Darwin had no knowledge about.
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