Darwin's EVOLUTION Practice Test

This illustration is a good example of which evidence for evolution?

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

• vestigial structures

• none of the above

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What is the process of which humans breed organisms for certain traits?

• artificial selection
• descent without modification
• inheritance of acquired characteristics
• natural selection

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Vertebrate embryos passing through similar stages of development is evidence for

• use and disuse

• homologous structures

• common ancestry

• acquired characteristics

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Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce

• better traits
• stronger genes
• more offspring
• fewer mutations

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All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a 

• group
• population
• variation
• fossil

A biological ____________ is a group of interbreeding populations that is reproductively isolated from other groups.

• species
• family
• phylogeny
• hybrid

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The system for classifying organisms called binomial nomenclature was developed by ___________

• Linneaus

• Mayr

• Darwin

• Lamarck

__________ characters are similar characteristics that have evolved separately in two unrelated organisms. (Ex. Sharks and Dolphins).

• analogous

• homologous

• cladistic

• phylogenic

______________ is the process by which populations change in response to their environment.

• natural selection
• adaptation
• reproductive isolation
• divergence

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Mutations are important because they bring about

• death of the organism in which they develop
• genetic variation needed for a population to evolve
• benefits for the individual, not for the population
• Hardey-Weinberg equilibrium within a population

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