Evolution Quiz 1

Charles Darwin came up with this theory 

• Natural Selection
• Mutation

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Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

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What characteristic did Darwin observe about the finches on the Galapagos Islands?

• Their feathers 
• Genotypes 
• Their beaks
• Their body sizes

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When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption
• Extinction
• Fossilization
• Mutation

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The separation of a group of individuals from the rest of the population is referred to as 

• genetic drift
• natural selection
• geographic isolation
• survival of the fittest

Change over time...

• Evolution
• Nucleotide 

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Who is the father of evolution?

• Darwin
• Mendel
• Newton
• Einstein

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What is a change in an organism that allows for it to survive in its environment?

• homologous
• vestigial
• variation
• adaptation

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

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

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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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