Zoology Chapters 4 & 5

Evolutionary change that results in the formation of new characteristics in response to the opening of new habitats.

• Microevolution

• Adaptive radiation

• macroevolution

• natural selection

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A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.

• Microevolution

• adaptive radiation

• macroevolution

• Natural Selection

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A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment is called a(an)

• adaptation

• vestigial structure

• homologous structure

• analogous structure

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Change in allele frequencies in a population over generations.

• Adaptive radiation

• macroevolution

• microevoulution

• analogous structures

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The study of the geographic distribution of species is called Ecology.

• True

• False

The preserved remains or traces of organisms that once lived on Earth.

• vestigial structures

• fossils

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

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Process by which unrelated organisms independently evolve similarities when adapting to similar environments.

• divergent evolution

• microevolution

• macroevolution

• convergent evolution

structures that do not have a common evolutionary origin but are similar in function.

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

• divergent structures

Structures in different species that are similar because of common ancestry. May have different functions.

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

• analogous structures

• common structures

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A structure that is present in an organism but no longer serves its original purpose.

• vestigial structure

• analogous structure

• homologous structure

• ancient structure