15.3 Reading Quiz

What is the name of the book Darwin published about his findings?

• Modes of Natural Selection 
• The Origins of the Earth
• Natural Selection through Evolution
• On the Origin of Species

Based on Darwin's observations, where was he convinced variations existed?

• farms
• nature
• both farms and nature
• neither farms nor nature

Artificial selection means ...

• made by nature
• made by the water
• made by humans 
• Hecho en Mexico

What is the definition of natural selection?

• Genes that are chosen by humans such as farmers and ranchers
• Organisms that are chosen by environmental pressures such as climate, available food, predators and habitat.
• Dogs and Wolves
• Genes that are chosen by scientist and academics. 

Fitness is defined as 

• how well an organism can survive and reproduce in an environment
• change over time
• condition of being healthy and active
• inherited traits that increase speed and endurance

When more offspring are being produced, there is a competition of limited resources---this is known as:

• Struggle for Existence
• Survival of the Fittest
• Descent with Modification
• Adaptation

Which principle did Darwin use to describe how living species descended, with changes, from other species over time?

• common descent
• descent with modification
• evolution
• natural selection

Which principle logically concludes that looking back far enough, we could find the common ancestor of all living things?

• common descent
• descent with modification
• evolution
• natural selection

Some organisms that share a common ancestor have features that have different functions, but similar structures.  These are known as

• vestigial structures
• analogous structures
• homologous structures
• fossil structures

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

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