Evolution

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

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.

Change over time

• Natural Selection
• Selective Breeding
• Homeostasis
• Evolution

Which best describes mutations?

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

Structures with the same parts have different functions; suggests that organisms share a common ancestry

• vestigial structures
• homologous structures
• adaptive radiation
• fossil

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

What type of structures are these?

• homologous
• vestigial 
• analogous
• fossil

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

Which scientist started the modern Theory of Evolution?

• Albert Einstein

• Robert Hooke

• James Watson

• Charles Darwin

Which term refers to the "process by which individuals better suited to their environment will survive and reproduce more often"?

• Evolution

• Variation

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection