Evolution

What is the term for the change over time in the hereditary features of organisms?

• common descent
• adaptation
• evolution
• natural selection

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What term describes a mechanism by which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptations produce more offspring on average than do other individuals? 

• evolution
• adaptation
• variation
• natural selection

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What is the term for a structure that no longer has a function or has changed in form?

• vestigial structure
• homologous structure
• analogous structure
• adaptation

Structures that look alike but perform different functions are known as __________.

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• variations
• analogous structures 

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All of the following provide evidence of common ancestry EXCEPT _____________.

• DNA evidence
• vestigial structures
• analogous structures
• homologous structures 

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An organism's ability to survive and reproduce is called ________.

• an adaptation
• reproductive fitness
• a variation
• luck

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Which scientist believed that living things could acquire traits and pass these traits onto their offspring?

• Malthus
• Darwin
• Lamarck
• Mendel

What do you call a characteristic, such as camouflage, that helps an organism to survive in its environment?

• fitness
• homologous structure
• analogous structure
• adaptation 

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What type of structure has a similar function but looks different? 

• analogous
• homologous
• vestigial
• embryological 

What information can be revealed by fossils? 

• physical traits and name of the organism
• exact time the fossil was alive
• physical traits and where the organism lived
• the DNA of the organism 

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