Evolution

What was the name of the ship Charles Darwin sailed on?

• Boaty McBoaty Face
• HMS Beagle
• HMS Britannia
• HMS Bulldog

Where did Charles Darwin travel to?

• Australia
• Barbados
• Galapagos 
• Trinidad

What does evolution mean?

• To change something
• To change and adapt over time
• To lose some original features
• To improve ssomething over time

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inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival

• adaptation

• evolution

• fitness

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model that uses comparisons of DNA sequences to estimate phylogeny and rate of evolutionary change

• molecular clock

• evolution

• biogeography

differences in physical traits of an individual from the group to which it belongs

• adaptation

• variation

• homologous structure

remnant of a structure that may have had an important function in a species' ancestors, but has no clear function in the modern species.

• homologous structure

• analogous structure

• vestigial structure

What animals did Charles Darwin study when at the Galapagos Islands?

• Giraffes
• Seagulls
• Seals
• Finches

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What is the title of Charles Darwin's famous book?

• The origin of species
• Origin of species
• On the origin of species
• Species. The origin

What is survival of the fittest?

• It is where the fittest die out and therefore reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest die out and therefore can't reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest don't die out and therefore can't reproduce and pass on their genes
• It is where the fittest don't die out and therefore reproduce and pass on their genes

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