Evolution Quiz

What must a species be able to do in order to survive?

• Consume a wide variety of food

• Maintain a constant body temperature

• Destroy competing species

• Reproduce successfully

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Match the following

• One species helping another species

• Vestigial structure

• Structures in organisms that no longer serve a purpose- ex. appendix in humans

• speciation

• formation of new species

• Analogous structures

• causes speciation because land barriers prevent breeding

• Coevolution

• Structures that are similar in function but not structure. NO common ancestor

• Geographic isolation

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Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures

• homologous structures

• adaptive radiation

• fossil

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Study of embryos of various organisms to show a common ancestor because of similarities in development

• natural selection

• embryology

• speciation

• evolution

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Some organisms that share a common ancestor have features that have different functions, but similar structures.  These are known as

• vestigial structures

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

• fossil structures

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The diagram illustrates an embryonic stage of two organisms.

Which of the following can be determined by observing the embryos shown in the diagram

• The organisms share a common ancestry.

• The organisms belong to the same genus.

• The organisms are native to the same geographic areas.

• The organisms will grow into anatomically similar adults.

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Human wisdom teeth

• Homologous

• Analogous

• Vestigial

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Not because of common ancestry

• Homologous

• Analogous

• Vestigial

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An example of a homologous structure 

• human arm and bird wing

• rat appendix  and human appendix

• wing of butterfly and bird wing

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What

type

of structure?

• Homologous

• Analogous

• Embryological

• Vestigial

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