Evolution

This is a process in which organisms gradually change over time.

• Environment
• Competition
• Evolution
• Fossils

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This is an inherited trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

• Evolution
• Population
• Environment
• Adaptation

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This is an ecological relationship in which two or more organisms depend on the same limited resource.

• Adaptation
• Competition
• Evolution
• Natural selection

In natural selection, the selective agent is the

• humans
• mutations
• breeders
• environment

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What did Charles Darwin observe in finch populations of the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America?

• different species on different islands

• all species on one of the islands

• identical species on all the islands

• the same species as North America

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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Natural selection results in change over time by acting on traits that are

• heritable
• new
• mutated 
• better than the best

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Some organisms that share a common ancestor have features that have different functions, but similar structures.  These are known as

• vestigial structures
• analogous structures
• homologous structures
• fossil structures

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Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement: 
acquired characteristics are inherited

• Darwin 
• Lamarck

Scientists find dinosaur fossils in the bottom of a cliff and mammal fossils in the middle layer, what can be inferred?

• dinosaurs ate plants

• dinosaurs were eaten by the mammals

• they lived at the same time

• dinosaurs lived before the mammals