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What is Evolution
This is the reason Charles Darwin is famous.
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What are The Canary Islands.
This is the first place Darwin visited during The HMS Beagle's second voyage.
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What is Phenotype.
This controls the physical aspects of an organism.
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What is Evolution.
This is any change over time in the allele frequency of a population.
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Who is Charles Darwin.
This memeber of the Beagle's crew was credited as the father of evoultion.
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What is the HMS Beagle.
This is the ship Darwin sailed with during its voyage starting in December of 1831.
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What is Species Vary Locally.
This is the reason some species from the same location have minor changes in anatomy.
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What is Natural Selection.
This acts directly on phenotype.
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What is Evolutionary Fitness.
This is the success in passing genes to the next generation.
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What is Her Majesty's Service.
This is what HMS stands for.
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What is the Galápagos Islands
This is the place Darwin is most famed for going.
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What is Species vary globally.
This is the reason Darwin found three species of similar flightless birds on different continents.
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What is mutation.
This is a change in the genetic material of a cell.
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What is Evolutionary Adaption.
This is any genetically controlled trait that incresses an individual's ability To pass along it's alleles.
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What is Mapping the South American coast.
This was the objective of the HMS Beagle's second voyage.
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What is 1809
This is the year Darwin was born.
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What is The Hood Island Tortoise.
This is the name of the Tortoise found on Hood Island
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What is Polygenic traits.
This occures when many traits are controlled by two or more genes.
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What is The Founder Effect.
This occures when small groups of individuals from a population leave to find a new settlement.
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What is Plymouth.
This is the town in which the HMS Beagle set sail from.
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Who is Abraham Lincoln.
This U.S. President shares a birthday with Darwin.
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What is the Rhea.
This is the species of flightless bird found in South America.
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What is Single-Gene Trait.
This is a gene that is controlled by only one trait.
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What is Genetic Drift.
This occures when allele frequency change by chance.
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Who is Robert Fitzroy.
This was the captian of the HMS Beagle's second voyage.
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