NOVA: What Darwin Never Knew Video Questions

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1. Why is there a stunning diversity of life? 2. What did Darwin want to understand? 3. Darwin admitted that ______. 4. Over eons of time, a single species gives rise to ______. 5. Darwin’s father sent him off to school to become a ______. 6. Early in the voyage, Darwin found ______. He began to ponder what their ______to the living organisms is. 7. The ______are a collection of 13 islands. 8. The local people knew something else about the tortoises. What was it? 9. After he returned to Britain, Darwin began to ______. 10. The birds found on the island were ______. 11. The difference depended on ______. 12. What did Darwin realize? 13. What as the standard view of the creation of species? 14. What did Darwin find in the ground in South America? 15. What did Darwin notice about embryos of snakes? 16. What was startling about human embryos? 17. What is descent with modification? 18. What is the title of Darwin’s book? 19. What did the mice on the Dark rocks do? 20. What is something Darwin never could do with the mice? 21. What can cause big changes in organisms? 22. To understand how evolution works, all you have to do is ______. 23. How many genes does a human have? Is this more or less then corn? Is this more or less then a chicken?