Evolution

Which statement does not support scientific theory:

• Theories can explain a wide variety of data and observations.

• Through advancements in technology, new discoveries can change a theory or add to it.

• A theory expresses doubt.

• Theories can be used to make predictions

Scientist that presented evidence that evolution happens and gave an explanation of how it happens:

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Robert Hook

• James Watson

• Francis Crick

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A change in the inherited characteristics of a population (species) over time is called:

• evolution

• protein synthesis

• karyotyping

• pedigree analysis

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Process when breeders select individuals that have desirable traits that can be inherited by offspring

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• adaptation

• embryonic development

Individuals that have traits that allow them to survive in their environment and pass those traits to their offspring is called:

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• karyotyping

• selective breeding

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Structures that are embryologically similar, but have different functions are called:

• analogous structures

• equivalent structures

• dissimilar structures

• homologous structures

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Which of the following is not evidence for evolution:

• binary fission

• embryonic development

• homologous structures

• biochemistry and DNA

• fossils

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Bones or organs in an animal that have no apparent function but does have a function in another similar animal (examples: snakes have tiny pelvic and limb bones and humans have a tail bone) are called:

• homologous structures

• embryonic structures

• vestigial structures

• analogous structures

Refers to changes in the genes of populations:

• microevolution

• macroevolution

• convergent evolution

• coevolution

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Which process is not associated with microevolution:

• natural selection

• migration

• extinction

• mutation

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