Evolution EOC Review

Multiple Choice

This scientist came up with the idea of natural selection.

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck
• Gregor Mendel
• Charles Darwin
• Thomas Malthus

Multiple Choice

Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

Multiple Choice

Survival of the fittest or when favorable adaptations reproduce faster is called what?

• Evolution
• Adaptation
• Natural selection
• Fossilization

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of a vestigial structure?

• the wings of a red-tailed hawk
• the hind limbs of a house cat
• the fins of sharks
• the tailbone of a human

Multiple Choice

What do we call a change in a species over time?

• Adaptation

• Evolution

• Extinction

• Environmental influences

Multiple Choice

What is embryology?

• the age of organisms
• the oldest stage of development
• the life span of an organism
• the earliest growth stage of development

Multiple Choice

Comparing human hemoglobin of chimpanzees, horses, kangaroos, and chickens, reveal that humans have the fewest amino acid differences with 

• Kangaroos
• Horses
• chickens
• chimpanzees

Multiple Choice

Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence
• exactly the same DNA sequences
• no proteins in common
• completely different DNA sequence