Life Science Set 12 - Evolution

Organisms with the best adaptations are more likely to survive.

What is this referring to?

• embryology

• sedimentary rock

• natural selection

• variation

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All vertebrates start off looking the same early in their development. The study of organisms in their earliest stages is called:

• variation

• homologous

• embryology

• evolution

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When organisms of a species completely die out, it is called ______.

• Evolution

• Natural selection

• extinction

• adaptation

What do we call the preserved remains or physical evidence of an organism that lived in the past?

• varitations

• mutations

• evolutionary features

• fossils

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If different animals' bone structures show similarities, these similarities might suggest what?

• these animals have the same bone that is used to help them fly.

• these animals may have a common ancestor

• these animals were all born at the same time.

• these animals can only survive if they live together.

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What did Charles Darwin do?

• He was the first person to think of the idea of evolution.

• Studied finches in the Galapagos Islands and figured out how natural selection causes evolution.

• He refuted/disproved the modern theory of evolution.

• He was the first person to actually witness animals evolving.

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The process by which organisms with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring:

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Speciation

• Sexual Selection

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Which of the following means "change over generations?"

• natural selection

• speciation

• evolution

• isolation

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Why are favorable/advantageous/beneficial traits more likely to be passed on to the offspring?

• Because parents with those traits can teach their offspring

• Because parents with those traits can survive better

• Because parents with those traits care more about their offspring

• Because offspring want those traits more.

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Which picture shows an example of a Vestigial Structure?

(Human arm/Whale hip bone/Cat ears/Bird wing)

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