Common Ancestry

Genes are passed down from your ______ .

A few organisms are relocated to another area, completely isolated from the population, and become a new species to adapt to survive in this new environment. This is an example of:

• natural selection

• geographic isolation

• fossil records

• variation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A population steadily declines until there are no living members left to reproduce offspring. This is an example of:

• extinction

• natural selection

• evolution

• speciation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

All organisms are derived from a common distant relative. This is to be believed as the:

• species

• geographic isolation

• speciation

• theory of evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

Examine the image.

What is the correct term for this diagram?

• speciation

• natural selection

• cladogram

• isolation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-3

Examine the diagram.

What can we conclude from the image?

• evolution doesn't exist

• all organisms are shaped from a single common ancestor

• evolution has stopped

• i am not sure

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Have humans stopped evolving? Why or why not?

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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