The cards Question What is a fossil? Tap to flip Answer The mineralised remains of a once-living organism, or traces left behind by organisms. Question What is the fossil record? Tap to flip Answer All the fossils ever found, with their ages, taken as a body of evidence. Question What is an extinct species? Tap to flip Answer A species that has no living members. Question What is evolution? Tap to flip Answer The change in the characteristics of a species over many generations, sometimes producing new species. Question What range of ages do the fossils in the fossil record span? Tap to flip Answer From about 10,000 years to billions of years old. Question Besides change over time, what do fossils show has happened to some species? Tap to flip Answer They have gone extinct. Question Give one example of an animal group with a series of fossils showing change from ancestors to modern species. Tap to flip Answer For example, whales. Question Can only animals become fossils? Tap to flip Answer No; any organism can, including plants. Question What is a common ancestor? Tap to flip Answer A species that several other species evolved from. Question Give one example of two species that share a common ancestor. Tap to flip Answer For example, tigers and lions. Question What is an evolutionary tree? Tap to flip Answer A diagram showing the evolutionary relationships between groups of organisms. Question What is a transitional species? Tap to flip Answer A species with intermediate characteristics between its evolutionary ancestors and modern species. Question Archaeopteryx is a transitional species linking which two groups? Tap to flip Answer Dinosaurs and modern birds. Question What are 'missing links' in the fossil record? Tap to flip Answer Gaps in the fossil record between evolutionary ancestors and modern species. Question What is selective breeding? Tap to flip Answer Humans choosing individuals with desirable traits and mating them to produce offspring with those traits. Question What is a crop? Tap to flip Answer A plant grown on a large scale for food or profit. Question What is a domesticated animal? Tap to flip Answer An animal that has been tamed and is kept as a pet or on a farm. Question What is food security? Tap to flip Answer A measure of the quantity and quality of food available to support households or whole communities. Question Give one way some plants and animals are useful to people. Tap to flip Answer For example, they provide food or materials, or do work. Question What effect does selective breeding have on particular features in a species? Tap to flip Answer It makes them more (or less) common. Question After many generations of selective breeding, how do domesticated species compare with their wild ancestors? Tap to flip Answer They can be quite different from them. Question Does selective breeding happen within a single generation? Tap to flip Answer No; it is a process that happens over many generations. Question In science, what is a theory? Tap to flip Answer A general explanation that applies to many situations. Question What is natural selection? Tap to flip Answer Better-adapted organisms are more likely to survive, reproduce and pass their genes on to their offspring. Question What is another name for artificial selection? Tap to flip Answer Selective breeding. Question Which two scientists collected evidence that helped them develop the theory of evolution by natural selection? Tap to flip Answer Darwin and Wallace. Question Why was the theory of evolution by natural selection not widely accepted at first? Tap to flip Answer Partly because it did not explain how heritable traits were passed on. Question The discovery of which molecule showed the mechanism for inheriting traits? Tap to flip Answer DNA. Question What is DNA? Tap to flip Answer A molecule made of nucleotides that contains the genetic code for making proteins in all living organisms. Question Was Darwin the only scientist involved in developing the theory of evolution by natural selection? Tap to flip Answer No; other scientists were involved in its original and later development. Question What is a species? Tap to flip Answer A group of similar organisms that can reproduce and produce fertile offspring. Question What is speciation? Tap to flip Answer When natural selection causes new species to form. Question What is an adaptation? Tap to flip Answer A feature that helps an organism live and survive in a particular place. Question According to the theory of evolution by natural selection, where did all modern species come from? Tap to flip Answer They evolved from earlier species. Question What does natural selection do to each generation of a species? Tap to flip Answer It makes it better adapted to its environment. Question How can populations of the same species become separate species? Tap to flip Answer By living in different conditions and evolving apart. Question Give one example of speciation in populations living in different conditions. Tap to flip Answer For example, Galápagos tortoises. Question What is variation? Tap to flip Answer Differences between members of the same species. Question What is climate change? Tap to flip Answer A long-term shift in weather patterns. Question What is extinction? Tap to flip Answer The permanent loss of a species. Question Climate change could lead to natural selection of individuals more tolerant of what? Tap to flip Answer Drought and high temperatures. Question Why could some species become extinct because of climate change? Tap to flip Answer They may not evolve quickly enough to keep up with it. Question Give one method people can use to help protect species from loss due to climate change. Tap to flip Answer For example, selective breeding. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Biology Unit Fossil evidence, selective breeding and explaining evolution Exam boards AQA, Edexcel, OCR Tiers foundation and higher England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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