Evolution

Which of the following is a term for a group of similar organisms that can reproduce fertile offspring?

• individual
• population
• species
• fossil

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Similar DNA sequences between organisms illustrate

• natural selection
• common ancestry
• population bottlenecks

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The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment 

• diversity.
• evolution
• adaptation
•  fitness

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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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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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What do the similarities of the structures suggest?

• a common ancestor
• grow at different rates
• evolved slowly
• lived a long time

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Evolution is a change in _________ over time.

• Populations
• Individuals
• Ecosystems

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The structures shown are_________

• homologous
• heterologous
• analogous
• vestigial

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These structures shown are ________.

• Homologous structures
• Analogous structures
• Structural adaptation
• Functional adaptation

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Another word for adapt is ____________.

• change
• create

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