Applied Bio - Evolution

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

Another word for adapt is ____________.

• change
• create

Which of the following is NOT an example of natural selection? 

• People selectively breeding hamsters.
• Insect populations developing resistance to certain pesticides.
• Bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.
• Male birds of certain species developing colorful feathers to attract female mates.

When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption
• Extinction
• Fossilization
• Mutation

Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence
• exactly the same DNA sequences
• no proteins in common
• completely different DNA sequence

Ostrich wings are examples of

• homologous structures
• vestigial structures
• adaptations
• traits

Dolphins have the same arm structure as wolfs, what type of evidence for evolution does this represent?

• DNA
• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• embryology

Change over time is

• evolution
• generation
• growth
• biogenesis

This makes an organism more suited to its enviornment

• species
• lifespan
• adaptation
• mutation

Natural selection results in change in a population's _____________ traits over time.

• inherited

• acquired