Evolution Quiz Review

Evolution is change in a population over time.

• True
• False

What is the basis for all variation among organisms? (What causes all variation?)

• Mutation

• Genetic Drift

• Migration

• Inbreeding

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Individuals with favorable traits survive, reproduce, and pass their traits onto their offspring.  This is called

• Mutation
• Adaptation
• Evolution
• Natural Selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Inherited trait that helps an organism survive is a(n) __________.

• Fossil
• Adaptation
• Ancestor
• Natural selection

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Ostrich wings are examples of

• homologous structures
• vestigial structures
• adaptations
• traits

When an organism completely dies out, it is called.....

• Adaption
• Extinction
• Fossilization
• Mutation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Two organisms that are closely related would have

• very similar DNA sequence
• exactly the same DNA sequences
• no proteins in common
• completely different DNA sequence

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

Comparing human hemoglobin of chimpanzees, horses, kangaroos, and chickens, reveal that humans have the fewest amino acid differences with 

• Kangaroos
• Horses
• chickens
• chimpanzees

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The structures shown are_________

• homologous
• heterologous
• analogous
• vestigial

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2