Evolution and Natural Selection

The father of evolution is

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Rbbert Hooke

Body parts that have similar functions but different structures (bones, etc.)

• Homologous structure

• Vestigial structure

• Analogous structure

• Adaptation

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Body parts that have similar structure components but different functions

• Homologous structure

• Vestigial structure

• Analogous structure

• Adaptation

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Structures that seemed to once have a purpose but for evolutionary reasons no longer serve a role even though we are still born with that structure

• Homologous structure

• Vestigial structure

• Analogous structure

• Adaptation

Example of a vestigial structure

• opposable thumb

• liver

• wisdom teeth

• ears

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A trait that increases an organism's chance of survival

• vestigial

• adaptation

• overproduction

• allele

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The theory that organisms who have favorable traits will be more likely to survive and reproduce, thus passing down their traits to future offspring

• fitness

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• overproduction

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The theory that populations change over long periods of time

• overpopulation

• fitness

• evolution

• metabolism

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Believed that all simple organisms eventually evolved into more complex organisms

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• Both

Believed that living things could develop from nonliving things

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• Both