Genetic Dance Dance Evolution

What is the term for a feature that allows an organism to survive in its environment?

• adaptation
• variation
• homologous structure
• vestigial structure

• analogous structures
• homologous structures
• vestigial structures
• none of the above

What is the process of which humans breed organisms for certain traits?

• artificial selection
• descent without modification
• inheritance of acquired characteristics
• natural selection

Vertebrate embryos pass through similar stages of development is evidence for

• use and disuse
• homologous structures
• common ancestry
• acquired characteristics

Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce

• better traits
• stronger genes
• more offspring
• fewer mutations

All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a 

• group
• population
• variation
• fossil

The remnant of an organ that had a function in an early ancestor is known as a(n)

• vestigial structure
• analogous structure
• homologous structure
• fossil structure

_________ is the process of change by which species of organism change over time.

• Nucleotides

• Evolution

• Mutation

• Carbon

Birds are eating all the green beetles. Because the brown beetles are surviving they reproduce more and make more brown beetles. This is called ___________

• Artificial Selection

• The Theory on the Origin of Species

• Natural Selection

• Mutation

Darwin wrote that the organisms best suited to their environments will .....

• Increase in Number

• Go Extinct

• Mutate More often