- All finches will learn to eat the hard seeds, and their beaks will strengthen.
- Finches with smaller, weaker beaks will reproduce more successfully.
- Finches with larger, stronger beaks will be favored, leading to an increase in their proportion in the population.
- The entire finch population will die out due to starvation.
Category: EVOLUTION
- Descent with modification.
- Common ancestry.
- Inheritance of acquired characteristics.
- Struggle for existence.
- Ensures that all individuals are identical.
- Provides the raw material upon which selection can act.
- Eliminates the struggle for existence.
- Guarantees the survival of every individual.
- Inheritance of acquired characters.
- Survival of the fittest.
- Mutation as the sole source of variation.
- Conscious striving for perfection.
- Individual bacteria would acquire resistance by adapting to the antibiotic and pass this resistance to their offspring.
- Random mutations would arise, making some bacteria resistant, which then survive and reproduce.
- The antibiotic would cause bacteria to become more susceptible to other antibiotics.
- Bacteria would actively choose to become resistant.
- The appearance of highly efficient photosynthetic organisms.
- The development of complex nervous systems.
- The formation of self-replicating molecules.
- The migration of organisms from water to land.
- They would grow naturally taller and less bushy.
- They would inherit the tendency to be shorter and bushier.
- They would show increased resistance to diseases.
- Their fruit production would significantly decrease.
- Enhanced synthesis of amino acids.
- Inhibition or destruction of newly formed organic molecules.
- Formation of complex proteins from simple amino acids.
- The experiment would have accurately simulated modern Earth conditions.
- Complex multicellular organisms.
- Autotrophic prokaryotes that performed photosynthesis.
- Heterotrophic prokaryotes that obtained nutrients from the environment.
- Eukaryotic cells with membrane-bound organelles.
- A hot, shallow ocean containing complex proteins.
- A deep-sea hydrothermal vent system with mineral-rich water.
- A body of water on early Earth rich in organic molecules formed from inorganic precursors.
- A sterile, oxygen-rich environment where life began.
- Rabbits change their fur color to match the environment.
- Rabbits with fur color that blends with the environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.
- All rabbits eventually develop camouflage fur.
- The predator learns to ignore rabbits with certain fur colors.
- Divine intervention; random mutation
- Use and disuse; pre-existing heritable variation
- Environmental pressure; individual effort
- Conscious will; acquired characteristics
- Directly causes beneficial mutations in organisms.
- Selects for individuals with pre-existing variations that are advantageous.
- Induces acquired characteristics in organisms.
- Provides a fixed blueprint for species evolution.
- All individuals in a population reproduce at the same rate.
- Individuals with advantageous traits are more likely to pass on their genes to the next generation.
- Only the largest individuals reproduce.
- Reproduction rates are solely determined by geographic location.
- The strongest and fastest individuals.
- Individuals best adapted to their environment.
- Individuals that can outcompete others for mates.
- Individuals that live the longest lifespan.
- Mating partners only.
- Resources, space, and mates.
- Avoiding predation exclusively.
- Achieving a higher level of complexity.
- Adaptation to the environment.
- Change in species over time.
- Inheritance of traits.
- Differential survival and reproduction based on inherent variation.
- All organisms in a population can successfully reproduce.
- Organisms produce more offspring than the environment can sustain.
- Every offspring produced will reach reproductive age.
- Genetic mutations lead to an excess of new traits.
- Eyes would gradually become larger and more sensitive.
- Eyes would gradually reduce in size and function due to disuse.
- Eyes would adapt by developing bioluminescent properties.
- Eyes would remain unchanged, as the environment offers no selective pressure.
