Evolution and Classification Review

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.

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Which best describes mutations?

• Always helpful
• Always harmful
• Can be helpful or harmful
• Always neutral

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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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Where the better adapted organisms survive to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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What does Darwin's theory of evolution suggest?

• species change over time
• extinct species are not related to living species
• different species can interbreed
• animals that look alike are most closely related

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Which of these best represents a time period in which an organism could evolve?

• 5 days
• 100 years
• 10,000 years
• 2 decades

a category of classification below a phylum

• Kingdon

• Domain

• Phylum

• Class

the largest division used to classify living things

• Class

• Domain

• Genus

• Species

Taxonomy is?

• one of the three domains of life

• the science of classifying and naming living things

• organisms with spinal cords in their backs

• one of the six kingdoms of life

I have no cell walls

I am eukaryotic

I reproduce sexually

I am multicellular

What kingdom do I belong to?

• Plant

• Animal

• Protist

• Fungi

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