Evolution

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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Organs or skeletal elements that have a similar structure, but not function

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

• vestigial structures

• none of the above

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

• better traits

• stronger genes

• more offspring

• fewer mutations

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

• group
• population
• variation
• fossil

The remnant of an organ that had a function in an early ancestor is known as a(n)

• vestigial structure
• analogous structure
• homologous structure
• fossil structure

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

• species
• family
• phylogeny
• hybrid

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______ _________ 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

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__________ characters are similar characteristics that have evolved separately in two unrelated organisms.

• analogous
• homologous
• cladistic
• phylogenic

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

• natural selection
• adaptation
• reproductive isolation
• divergence

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