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Evolution Review

Authored by Brianna Patterson

Science

9th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What word describes a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?

natural selection

mutation

camouflage

adaptation

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Almost all adaptations started off as?

selective breeding

physiological

structural

mutations

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Why are advantageous or beneficial traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?

Because those traits make them more likely to survive and reproduce.

Because those traits come from dominant alleles.

Because those traits come from recessive alleles.

Because those traits are acquired phenotypes.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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Structures with the same bone structure but different functions (jobs) suggest that organisms share a common ancestry. What are these structures called?

vestigial structures

homologous structures

adaptive radiation

fossil

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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Which of the following is an example of a vestigial structure?

the wings of a red-tailed hawk
the hind limbs of a house cat
the fins of sharks
the tailbone of a human

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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Two organisms that are closely related but not clones would have...

very similar DNA sequences

exactly the same DNA sequences

no proteins in common

completely different DNA sequences

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What does Darwin's theory of evolution suggest?

species change over time
extinct species are not related to living species
different species can interbreed
animals that look alike are most closely related

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