Evolution Unit Review

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Evolution is the __________ of a species over ___________.

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change, time

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What is the formation of new species?

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Speciation

Front

What type of natural selection is shown when the population shifts to one extreme?

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Directional Selection

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Who developed the theory of evolution?

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Charles Darwin

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Structures with no function that are remnants of an organism's evolutionary past are called...?

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vestigial

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What is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring?

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Natural Selection

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What is the term for the shared ancestry between a pair of structures, or genes, in different taxa?

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Homologous structures

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What is the term for the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become more different from each other?

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Divergent Evolution

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What is the term for the evolutionary process where two or more related species become more similar over time?

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Convergent Evolution

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What is the term for a diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among various biological species?

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Phylogenetic tree