Chapter 16 & 17 Review- Evolution

process by which organisms have changed over time

• speciation

• translation

• evolution

• fossilization

preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms

• evoluation

• bones

• proteins

• fossils

Humans select variants they want in this type of selection.

• natural

• artificial

• diploid

• genetic

any heritable characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment

• fitness

• fossil

• artificial selection

• adaptation

describes how well an organism can survive and reproduce in its environment

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• fitness

• adaptatin

process by which organisms in nature with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring

• artificial selection

• natural selection

• fitness

• evolution

study of where organisms live now and where they and their ancestors lived in the past

• biology

• geography

• bioinformatics

• biogeography

similar structures that are shared by related species and hav e been inherited from a common ancestor

• homologous

• vestigial

• adaptation

• fossil

body parts of organisms that share common functions, but not common structure and development

• analogous structures

• homologous structure

• vestigial structure

• None of these

inherited from ancestors that have lost much of their original size and function but retain anatomical homologies to functional versions of the same structure

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

• vestigial structures

• All of these