Evolution Vocab and Bird Beaks

When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption
• Extinction
• Fossilization
• Mutation

Mistakes or changes that occur int he DNA sequence are called....

• adatations
• Darwinism
• mutations
• natural selection

The preserved remains or physical evidence of an organism that lived in the past are called...

• evolutionary features
• fossils
• mutations
• variations

The solidified remain or imprint of a once living thing are called:

• Fossils

• Homologous Structures

• Vestigial Structures

• DNA

Adaptations are:

• physical or behavioral tendencies.

• physical or behavioral characteristics that help an organisms survive and reproduce.

• physical or behavioral characteristics that do not help the organism in any way.

• genetic mutations that have gone wrong.

Which scientist visited the Galapagos Islands and came up with the theory of natural selection?

• Theodor Schwann

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Rudolf Virchow

A physical or behavioral trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment is called a what?

• An adaptation

• A response to a stimulus

• A mutation

• Evolution

This is a process in which organisms gradually change over time.

• Environment
• Competition
• Evolution
• Fossils

The surroundings and conditions in which an organism lives and operates.

• Evolution
• Population
• Environment
• Biological diversity

These are natural differences within a species.

• Evolution
• Genetic variation
• Biological diversity
• Populations