Evolution

Where organisms have inherited better adapted traits to survive their environments to pass traits along to offspring.

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Extinction

• Artifical Selection

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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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Natural selection is when ____________ decides who survives and who doesn't

• nature
• humans
• animals
• years

The trees these moths used to live on were white, but have been covered in soot from coal factories. Which moth will be more successful in this environment?

• Dark moth
• Light moth
• Both will be equally successful
• Neither will be successful

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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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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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What type of structures are these?

• homologous
• vestigial 
• analogous
• fossil

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Which of these best represents a time period in which an organism could evolve to become something completely new?

• 5 days

• 100 years

• 10,000 years

• 2 decades

Whales are aquatic mammals that contain a pelvis (hip) bone. Even though it does not aid in its movement, the function must have been used by a common ancestor of the whale. Thus, the pelvis is referred to as a(n)

• vestigial structure

• analogous structure

• homologous structure

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The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its specific environment 

• diversity.
• evolution
• adaptation
•  fitness

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