Evolution Vocab Quiz Part 2

A certain scientist maps fossil evidence for the extinct genus of fern Glossopteris on the continents of South America, Africa, India, Antarctica, and Australia. What is this type of study called?

• radiometric dating

• relative dating

• biogeography

• punctuated equilibrium

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

If two organisms have homologous structures, what might those structures indicate?

• the organisms have nothing in common

• the organisms have the same genes

• the organisms have the same parents

• the organisms have a common ancestor

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

the study of unborn animals and their development

• comparative anatomy

• vestigial studies

• embryology

• homology

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NGSS.MS-LS4-3

a system that names each organism by giving its genus and species

• binomial nomenclature

• cladogram

• taxonomy

• classification

a domain of prokaryotes that can exist in the most extreme environments on earth; includes archaebacteria

• archae

• eukarya

• protista

• eubacteria

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

the idea that evolution is not always gradual, but that changes in a species may occur rapidly for short periods of time.

• gene flow

• genetic drift

• punctuated equilibrium

• founder effect

structures that have no useful purpose

• vestigial organs

• embryonic organism

• vital organs

• homologous organs

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

archaebacteria, eubacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia are what?

• domains

• kingdoms

• phyla

• species

the branch of Biology that names and classifies organisms into taxa

• analogous structures

• archae

• taxonomy

• derived characters

The highest taxonomic category based on Carl Woese's three-domain tree of life system; a taxon larger than a kingdom

• phylum

• domain

• eukarya

• archae