Evolution Vocabulary Quiz

British naturalist who published "On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection" in 1859

• Alfred Wallace

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• Biodiversity

body parts that have a similar function, but not a similar structure

• analagous structures

• reproductive isolation

• vestigal structures

• homologous structures

an inability of organisms to interbreed due to geographic barriers

• reproductive isolation

• biodiversity

• analagous structures

• radioisotope dating

the process by which a species of organisms change over time

• extinction

• evolution

• generation

• speciation

an early stage in the development of an organism

• geology

• embryo

• fossil

• speciation

refers to the physical and behavioral traits that allow an organism to survive and reproduce

• fitness

• gene flow

• generation

• biodiversity

the evolution of a new species from an existing species

• extinction

• evolution

• speciation

• generation

a scientific theory that explains the process of evolution

• mass extinction

• vestigal structures

• punctuated equilibrium

• natural selection

the remains or evidence of a once-living organism

• geology

• evolution

• embryo

• fossil

body parts of different organisms that have a similar structure, but may have different functions

• vestigial structures

• biodiversity

• analogous structures

• homologous structures