FINAL EXAM

Which of the following is a factor in natural selection?

• Individuals of species compete with one another to survive.
• All species are genetically diverse.
• Individuals better able to adapt to changes leave more offspring.
• All are correct 

The process in which organisms with traits well suited to an environment are more likely to survive and to produce offspring is

• Natural Selection
• Origin of Species
• Genetic Principles
• Trait Mechanism

Darwin observed the greatest diversity of organisms on the Galapagos Islands

• True
• False

Which of these statements is true about Darwin's conclusions?

• Darwin believed that evolution had occurred on the Galapagos Islands
• Darwin thought that Galapagos organisms gradually changed over many generations
• Selective breeding helped Darwin understand how evolution might occur
• All of the above

Darwin knew all about genes and mutations.

• True
• False

THE ANIMAL THAT CATCHES THE MOST OF DARWIN'S ATTENTION ON THE ISLAND.

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Darwin noticed that many plants and animals seemed well suited to

• being preserved as fossils

• providing humans with food

• surviving in their specific environment

• swimming from South America to the Galapagos Islands

Darwin's theory of evolution is based on the idea(s) of

• heritable variation and natural selection

• use and disuse

• a tendency toward perfect, unchanging species

• the transmission of acquired characteristics

Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

The disappearance of a species.

• Evolution
• Extinction
• Migration
• Mutation