Evolution Quiz Updated

______ _________ 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

What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive in its environment?

• adaptation
• variation
• homologous structure
• vestigial structure

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The remnant of an organ or bone that had a function in an early ancestor but no real modern use such as the femur in whales is known as a(n)

• vestigial structure

• analogous structure

• homologous structure

• fossil structure

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Finches on the Galapagos Islands had different beaks in order to help them do what?

• Build nests
• Fight off predators
• Collect food sources
• Compete with rivals

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Survival of the fittest or when favorable adaptations reproduce faster is called what?

• Selective Breeding

• Adaptation
• Natural selection
• Fossilization

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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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Change over time is

• evolution
• generation
• growth
• biogenesis

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Which of the following is a fossil?

• a plant that has recently died
• a group of organisms that can reproduce
• a structure or organ that no longer functions
• a trace of an organisms that existed in the past

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Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

• Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
• Because they come from dominant alleles.
• Because they come from recessive alleles.
• Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

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What can increase diversity in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes?

• DNA Mutation

• Meiosis

• Binary Fission

• None of these

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