Evolution

Who is the father of evolution?

• Darwin
• Mendel
• Newton
• Einstein

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What is another name for natural selection?

• survival of the smartest
• survival of the fastest
• survival of the biggest
• survival of the fittest

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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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What is the study of organisms at the early stages of development?

• DNA studies
• embryology 
• extinction
• fossil record

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What is an organism that has similar characteristics and can reproduce?

• species
• organism
• embryology
• vestigial 

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What is this an example of?

• vestigial structures
• embryology
• homologous structures
• fossil record

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Which layer is the oldest?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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When individuals choose traits possessed by the opposite sex it is called…

• Mutation
• Gene Flow
• Genetic Drift
• Sexual Selection

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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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Which species’ DNA is most similar to the DNA of the toothed whale? 

• Hippopotamus 
• Baleen Whale
• Grazing Mammals
• Camels

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