SB 4 and 6 Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• This is the kingdom of unicellular prokaryotes that are found in most environments.

• Plant

• This is the kingdom of heterotrophs that obtain energy and nutrients from dead oranisms

• Archaebacteria

• This kingdom is made up of organisms that are animal-like, plant-like and fungus-like

• Protists

• This is any multicellular living thing that obtains energy from sunlight or makes its own food

• Fungi

• This is the kingdom of unicellular prokaryotes that are found in extreme environments

• Eubacteria

Match the following

• This is the evolutionary history of a species or group of related species

• embryology

• This is the chronicle of evolution over millions of years of geologic time found in soil

• fossil record

• used to show similarities and differences between organisms in early development

• phylogeny

• This is a change in the genetic makeup of a population or species over time

• evolution

• This is the origin of a new species in evolution.

• speciation

Match the following

• These are groups of reproducing populations that are isolated from other groups.

• comparative anatomy

• This is the study of similar and different structures in organisms

• common ancestor

• This is the descent of different species from a common species over many generations

• cladogram

• Theory that one prokaryote engulfed another to become a eukaryote

• species

• This is a diagram which shows the evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms.

• endosymbiosis

Match the following

• This is the process of organisms adapting to their environments over time

• homologous structures

• structures which are similar in different organisms because they evolved in a similar environment

• geographic isolation

• a structure that has no known function in an organism

• vestigial structure

• physical features shared by organisms with common ancestry

• natural selection

• This can occur when part of a population of a species becomes separated from the remainder

• analogous structures

Match the following

• All the individuals of a species that live together in one place at the same time

• mutation

• evolutionary event in which population size is radically reduced usually because of a catastrophe

• gene flow

• In a population, the changes in allelic frequencies of a gene that are due to chance.

• genetic drift

• This is any movement of individuals, and/or the genetic material they carry, from one population to

• bottleneck effect

• This is a random error/change in the DNA sequence. These may be inherited

• population

Match the following

• This is a type of natural selection that selects against the average individual in a population.

• disruptive selection

• Number and variety of living organisms; includes genetic, species, and ecological types

• biodiversity

• This is a type of natural selection that favors one extreme phenotype over the other extreme

• directional selection

• This is an inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival.

• fitness

• species adapt and change by natural selection and the changes aid in the survival of the organism

• adaptation