Natural Selection, Evolution, Geologic Time, & Classification

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What structure allows plants to produce their own food?

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Chloroplasts

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Which pair of animals are genetically most closely related?

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Rat and Mouse

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What letter represents the most recent common ancestor of sponges and mushrooms?

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C

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List the 8 levels of classification from most broad to most specific.

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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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What type of evolutionary structure do pangolins and anteaters have due to their long, sticky tongues?

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Analogous Structure

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What is natural selection?

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The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

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Define evolution.

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The change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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What is a common ancestor?

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An ancestor that two or more descendants share.

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What is the significance of genetic similarities in species?

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They can indicate how closely related different species are and their evolutionary history.

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What is a homologous structure?

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An anatomical feature that is similar in different species due to shared ancestry.