Evolution Review

Preserved remains of an organism that lived in the past…..

• fossil
• picture
• dinosaur
• animal

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The man who proposed the theory of natural selection and evolution.

• Thomas Moore
• Gregor Mendel
• Neil Degrasse Tyson
• Charles Darwin

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The theory that organisms best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.
"Survival of the fittest."

• Natural selection
• Adaptation
• Extinction
• Fossil

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According to the diagram, who is most closely related to primates? 

• Amphibians
• Rodents & Rabbits
• Crocodiles
• Sharks

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When has speciation occurred?

• When populations no longer look the same
• When populations no longer have the same frequency of alleles
• When populations are living in different environments
• When populations can no longer interbreed

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Which of the three graphs shows stabilizing selection?

• A
• B
• C

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What characteristic did Darwin observe about the finches on the Galapagos Islands?

• Their feathers 
• Genotypes 
• Their beaks
• Their body sizes

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

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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

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If finches with average sized beaks increase in a population while finches with large and small sized beaks decrease, which pattern of natural selection has occurred?

• Directional selection
• Disruptive selection 
• Stabilizing selection
• Sexual Selection

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