Adaptations and Evolutions

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Father of Evolution

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Adam Smith

• Pea plants

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Natural Selection is the idea that

• Organisms better suited for their environment will survive and reproduce

• Any physical or behavioral characteristic that helps an organism to better survive

• Theory that organisms have changed gradually over a long period of time to form mew organisms

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Natural selection is the process that passes down ____________________ traits.

• Same

• Old

• Useless

• Favorable

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Darwin referred to this as survival of the fittest. Over time, it results in changes in the inherited characteristics of a population. 

• Natural Selection
• Genetic Variation
• Survival of the Fittest
• Extinction

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An adaptation is

• Organisms better suited for their environment will survive and reproduce

• Any physical or behavioral characteristic that helps an organism to better survive

• Theory that organisms have changed gradually over a long period of time to form mew organisms

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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What is this an example of?

• Homologous structures

• Analogous structures

• Vestigial organs

• Functional adaptations

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Predict which moth would increase in population

• light 
• dark

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This diagram of the hip and thigh bones of a whale shows ___________ .

• fossils

• adaptations

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

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What name is given to body structures that have a similar structure in related species and are believed to be inherited from a common ancestor?

• analogous structures

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

• conspecific structures

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Evolution is defined as a(n)

• Idea that organisms better suited for their environment will survive and reproduce

• Any physical or behavioral characteristic that helps an organism to better survive

• Theory that organisms have changed gradually over a long period of time to form mew organisms

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Gradual change in a population through adaptations over time.

• migration
• directional selection
• evolution
• speciation

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Which group of animals on this tree are most closely related to birds?

• Saurischian dinosaurs

• Ornithischian dinosaurs

• Crocodiles

• None of these are related to birds

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From the picture above, What do the species all have in common?

• Back bone

• Same father

• Common ancestor

• Feathers

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Which trait (adaptation) was developed most recently?

• tetrapod limbs

• feathers

• amnion

• They developed at the same time

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Where is the alligator and T. rex's common ancestor?

• Point A

• Point B

• Point C

• Point D