Evolution Quiz

What is the biological change process by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors?

• Adaptation

• Variation

• Natural selection

• Evolution

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What is the measure of survival ability and ability to produce more offspring?

• Overproduction

• Heritability

• Fitness

• Adaptation

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What provides evidence of evolution by showing that populations can show variation from one island to another?

• Embryology

• Geography

• Anatomy

• Fossils

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What are structures that are similar in structure but different in function?

• Homologous structures

• Analogous structures

• Vestigial structures

• Structural patterns

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What are structures that are similar in function but very different in form and structure?

• Homologous structures

• Analogous structures

• Vestigial structures

• Structural patterns

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What is the study of fossils or extinct organisms?

• Paleontology

• Embryology

• Molecular biology

• Genetics

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What provides a record of evolution?

• Pseudogenes

• Fossils

• Molecular and genetic evidence

• Hox genes

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Which scientist proposed natural selection as a mechanism for evolution?

• Isaac Newton

• Louis Pasteur

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

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