Evolution & Genetics Test Review

___________ is an adjustment to environmental conditions.

• Adaptation

• Evolution

Species acquire characteristics through ...

• Homeostasis

• Variation

Similar embryological development indicates ...

• adaptation of interiors

• common ancestry

What type of structure is shown as evidence for adaptation?

• Homologous Structures

• Analogous Structures

Equivalent adaptations developed independently are_______ structures.

• Homologous

• Heterogeneous

• Analogous

Extinction will most likely NOT occur in the following example?

• the organism that is smaller and smarter than others

• the organism that is able to survive and reproduce more than others

Genetic diversity among members of a species is known as ...

• variation

• law of evolution

• adaptation

Which hypothesis best explains marine fossils found in a desert?

• the area was once covered with water

• a catastrophe once occurred in the area

You can best conclude that if fossils of warm-weather plants found on an island in the Arctic Ocean then ...

• ocean currents carried the plants to the island

• the island drifted from a tropical region to the present location

The statement that supports the theory of evolution is ...

• matter cannot be created or destroyed during chemical reactions

• fossils provide evidence that vertebrates share a common ancestry