Evolution Warm Up 3/31

Evolution Warm Up 3/31

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Farrah James

Biology

9th - 12th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.
Evolution
Natural Selection
Extinction
Artifical Selection

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why are advantageous traits more likely to be passed onto offspring?
Because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
Because they come from dominant alleles.
Because they come from recessive alleles.
Because the trait is an acquired phenotype.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When unrelated species evolve similar characteristics because they live in similar

environments

Divergent Evolution

Speciation

Convergent Evolution

Punctuated equilibrium

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A number of different species arise from one common ancestor

- New environments caused differences to evolve in populations

Convergent Evolution

Divergent Evolution

Coevolution

Gradualism

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This structure could be leftover from an ancestor that had used the structure, and thus could provide evidence of divergent evolution

Homologous

Analogous

Vestigial

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