Biology Evolution Vocab Quiz

Change over time; The process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.

• Evolution

• Natural selection

• variation

• adaption

• heritability

Scientific study of embryos and their development.

• Geography

• Biogeography

• molecular biology

• Embryology

Process by which organisms that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of fittest.

• Species

• fossil

• natural selection

• heritability

Heritable characteristics that increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in an environment.

• adaption

• embryology

• gene flow

• variation

Ability of a trait to be passed from one generation to the next.

• adaption

• fossil

• Heritability

• species

Selective breeding of plants and animals to promote the occurrence of desirable traits in offspring.

• vestigial structure

• Natural selection

• Arificial Selection

• bottle neck effect

Group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.

• Species

• Fossil

• gene flow

• genetic drift

Difference in physical traits of an individual from the group to which it belongs.

• biogeography

• Species

• Artificial selection

• Variation

Preserved remains of, or traces of ancient organisms

• species

• population

• Fossil

• hominid

Structure that is inherited from ancestors, but which has lost much or all of its original function.

• Analogous Structure

• Homologous structure

• Vestigial Structure

• biogeography