History and Evidence of evolution

The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection was created by...

• Charles Darwin

• Sir Issac Newton

• Gregor Mendel

• Alfred Russel-Wallace

• Mr. Brod

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Darwin's Most noticeable observations during his journey in the HMS beagle took place in...

• The Galapagos Islands

• Australia

• The Hawaiian islands

• Austria

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Darwin began to become interested in finches during his voyage after noticing their varying...

• beak size and shape

• wingspan

• coloration

• songs and mating calls

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When two or more species evolve from a single species, this means that they share...

• a common ancestor

• a deep bond

• the same DNA

• the same evolutionary path

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Evolution is one of science's most strongly supported theories, meaning...

• it is supported by a lot of different evidence

• it is still just a theory and probably isn't true

• It will probably become a law one day

• it is not supported by much evidence

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A trait that two organisms share because they inherited it from a recent a common ancestor is what type of trait?

• Homologous trait

• Vestigial trait

• Analogous trait

• Common trait

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A trait that two organisms share because of similar environments, but do not share a recent common ancestor is what type of trait?

• Analogous trait

• Homologous trait

• Vestigial trait

• Common Trait

A type of homologous trait that an organism inherits from an ancestor, but no longer uses the trait is known what?

• Vestigial Trait

• Useless Trait

• Genetic Trait

• Analogous trait

Which of the follow is true about fossil records? (more than one)

• Allow us to observe organisms that went extinct a long time ago

• Allow us to observe the gradual change of organisms over time

• Most organisms become fossils when they die

• Allow us to see features in living organisms

• We can use multiple dating methods to determine how old some fossils are

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The emergence of DDT resistant mosquito populations in the 1950s is a direct observation of...

• microevolution

• macroevolution

• convergent evolution

• coevolution

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