Year 10 Evolution

Question 1

What is evolution?

Answer 1

When animals and plants evolve to be able to survive and/or fit their climate and environment.

Question 2

Who discovered evolution and how?

Answer 2

Charles Darwin, he travelled the world and made notes about the natural world.

Question 3

What is natural selection?

Answer 3

Natural selection is the natural meconium for evolution

Question 4

What is the evidence for evolution?

Answer 4

Fossils (preserved remains of living organism) DNA sequencing, geographical distribution, comparative embryology (similar embryos), comparative anatomy (bones)