Evolution Vocabulary

How well an organism is able to survive and reproduce

• Fitness

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Evolution

Survival of the fittest

• Fitness

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Evolution

Changes over time/In genetic terms, changes in allele frequency over time

• Evolution

• Relative frequency

• Natural Selection

• Adaption

Humans choose which organisms reproduce

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• Artificial Selection

• Adaption

A similar structure between two related organisms

• Vestigial strucutre

• Analogous structure

• None of these

• Homologous structure

Organisms that have a similar structure but are not related to each other

• Vestigial structure

• Analogous structure

• none of these

• Homologous structure

A structure that is no longer used by an organism but is a remnant of a structure an ancestor would have used.

• Vestigial structure

• Analogous structure

• none of these

• Homologous structure

A way to determine the actual age of a fossil by calculating that amount of carbon-14 present.

• Radioactive dating

• Relative dating

• Absolute dating

• None of these

A way to determine the approximate age of a fossil by looking at it’s location in rock layers

• Radioactive dating

• Relative dating

• Absolute dating

• None of these

Type of selection that favors both extreme traits and not the average. Ends up creating two groups

• Sexual selection

• Directional selection

• Stabilizing selection

• Disruptive selection