Evaluating Scientific Explanation

Evolution is best defined as:

• the process which organisms die.

• the process which organisms change over time.

• the process which organisms that are extinct become revived.

• the process which non-living things fossilize.

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What type of evidence is shown in this picture?

• Fossils

• Homologous Structures

• Vestigial Structures

• DNA

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What type of evidence are shown in the picture above?

• Fossils

• Embryology

• Homologous Structures

• Vestigial Structures

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Adaptations are:

• physical or behavioral tendencies.

• physical or behavioral characteristics that help an organisms survive and reproduce.

• physical or behavioral characteristics that do not help the organism in any way.

• genetic mutations that have gone wrong.

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The similarities of the bones in the diagram provide evidence that---

• The organisms shown lived in the same natural envionrment
• The organisms shown may have developed from a common ancestor
• The organisms shown have the same genetic diseases
• All vertebrate species have identical forelimbs

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What process is being shown in this image?

• Variation
• Natural Selection
• Selective Breeding
• Homeostasis

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The process by which two populations of the same species become so different that they can no longer interbreed.

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• speciation

• fossilization

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______ _________ explains how two or more organisms could evolve similar traits even though they are not related to each other.

• convergent evolution
• reproductive isolation
• derived characters
• hybrid vigor

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A __________ is a branching diagram that shows evolutionary relationships.

• cladogram
• table
• derived character
• relationship tree

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__________ characters are similar characteristics that have evolved separately in two unrelated organisms.

• analogous
• homologous
• cladistic
• phylogenic

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