Category 3 Biology STAAR

The ___________ record provides evidence for evolution by showing how species have changed over time.

• fossil

• time

• embryological

• analogous structure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Similar fossils have been found in places separated by thousands of miles of ocean, but which would have been next to each other on Pangea.

• False

• True

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

A ___________ structure in two different species has the same developmental and evolutionary history, but serves different functions in the two species.

• analogous

• embryology

• homologous

• fossil

A _________ structure in two different species has a different developmental and evolutionary history, but serves the same function in the two species.

• analogous

• embryology

• homologous

• fossil

_________ structures had an ancestral use, but serve no function now.

• analogous

• vestigial

• homologous

The science comparing similarities and differences between different organisms during pre-birth development is known as comparative _____________.

• analogous structures

• embryology

• homologous structures

• fossils

Which description BEST describes gradualism?

• speciation occurs slowly and continuously over time

• speciation occurs during short bursts

• species show little change over time

• fossils in the lower strata are younger and the higher strata

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

Which term best describes punctuated equilibrium?

• speciation occurs slowly and continuously over time

• species show little change over time

• fossils in the lower strata are younger than fossils in the higher strata

• speciation occurs during quick bursts

Survival of the fittest always refers to the strongest organism surviving.

• true

• false

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

This type of selection favors average phenotypes over extreme ones.

• directional

• disruptive

• stabilizing

• artificial

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4