Evolution review

What was the name of Dwain's book that explained his theory of Evolution

• On Natural Selection

• The Survival of the Fittest

• On the Origin of Species

• Why Lamarck was Wrong

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Body parts that are similar in structure and position but different in function

• vestigial structures

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

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Body parts that have lost their original function through evolution

• vestigial structures

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

Body parts that are similar in function but different in structure

• vestigial structures

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

An inherited trait that helps those organisms that have it to survive.

• niche
• structure
• characteristic
• adaptation

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What causes a new trait/phenotype to appear in a population?

• Competition and necessity

• Mutation
• Speciation

• Fitness

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The ABILITY of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment

• Adaptation

• fitness

• Mutation

• Natural Selection

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The process where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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How do you "win" at natural selection?

• survive

• go extinct

• survive & reproduce

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Change over time

• Natural Selection
• Selective Breeding
• Homeostasis
• Evolution

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