Evolution Review

Evolution is the result of a process called ____________

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Survival of the Weakest

• Supernatural Selection

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According to natural selection, organisms more suited to their environment are better able to

• Sleep

• Survive

• Perish

• Migrate

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The process of passing down favorable traits to one's offspring is called

• Artificial Selection

• Mutations

• Evolution

• Inheritance

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Changes in genetic material are called _____________

• Mutations

• RNA

• Genes

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Mutations can be inherited or be

• Chosen by the individual organism

• Caused by environmental factors

• Refused at any time

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In the graph shown, how many species of lizards seem to have beneficial adaptations?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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What do we call similar physical structures that indicate a link to a common ancestor?

• absolute dating
• adaptations
• gradualism
• homologous structures

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

• evolutionary features
• fossils
• mutations
• variations

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What most likely caused the finches on the Galapagos Islands to have beaks that were differnt from the finches living on the South American mainland?

• They were different types of food available on the island.
• The finches on the islands had to drink salt water.
• There were different types of predators living on the island.
• The finches on the mainland built different types of nests.

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

• Theodor Schwann

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Rudolf Virchow

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