Science 7 Final Review 2023

Select ALL that show evidence of evolution.

• DNA

• mutations

• fossils

• skeletal structures

Who was the Scientist most famous for his study of natural selection and evolution?

• Theodor Schwann

• Robert Hooke

• Charles Darwin

• Rudolf Virchow

What is the advantage of having different shaped beaks?

• To look different from other species.
• To be able to eat the food readily available in the environment.
• To protect itself against predators.
• To protect itself against prey.

Parts of the body that are similar to other species because they have a common ancestor

• fossil record

• homologous structures

• embryology

Organisms with the best suited adaptations for their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than organisms that are not very well adapted

• natural selection

• artificial selection

• creationism

Charles Darwin came up with this theory 

• Natural Selection
• Mutation

Darwin wrote that organisms with traits that are best suited to the environment will ________________

• increase in number
  
• become extinct
  

What do we call new plants that are related to their parents?

• Teenager

• Germination

• Offspring

• Family

The passage of genetic instructions from one generation to the next is known as

• Alleles

• Ancestry

• Heredity

• Variation

phenotype

• an organisms genetic makeup

• the organisms physical appearance or visible traits

• genotype

• purebred