Evolution Vocabulary Quiz

the STUDY of how characteristics of living things are transmitted (passed) from one generation to the next.

• evolution
• natural selection
• genetics
• taxonomy

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how living things change over time

• evolution
• natural selection
• variation
• embryological

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process where animals adapt to their environment in order to survive (survival of the fittest)

• adaptation
• natural selection
• analogous structures
• domains

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evolutionary process where an organism becomes better suited to its habitat over time

• taxonomy
• genetics
• variation
• adaptation

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The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past

• Adaptation

• Species

• Fossil

• Evolution

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Well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations

• Mold

• Evolution

• Branching Tree

• Scientific Theory

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Organisms with traits best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce

• Natural Selection

• Evolution

• Petrified Fossil

• Cast

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Inherited trait that makes an individual different from other members of the same species

• Variation

• Evolution

• Branching Tree

• Adaptation

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Because of his observations of plants and animals, he developed the theory of evolution by natural selection

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Evolution

• Gradualism

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Type of evidence supporting evolution that showing they have similar amino acid and protein sequences

• biochemical

• fossil

• embryological

• homologous structures

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