Evolution Vocabulary Quiz

The gradual change in a species over time 

• Mutation

• Speciation

• Fossil

• Evolution

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selective breeding of plants and animals for  desirable traits in offspring

• artificial selection

• natural selection

• mutation

• adaptation

A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment are the ones who survive and reproduce

• natural selection

• speciation

• artificial selection

• fossil record

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changes in a DNA sequence 

• mutation

• variation

• extinction

• adaptation

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Any difference between individuals of the same species

• variation

• extinction

• speciation

• fossil record

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A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce

• adaptation

• speciation

• gradualism

• fossil record

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a species that no longer has any known living individuals

• extinction

• embryo

• fossil

• speciation

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

• vestigial structure

• homologous structure

• analogous structure

• fossil records

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the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution 

• speciation

• mutation

• embryo

• punctuated equilibrium

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

• homologous structures

• embryo

• fossil

• vestigial structures

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