unit 10 vocabulary quiz

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

• Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Extinction
• Artifical Selection

Look at the picture. What is this an example of?

• vestigial structures

• embryology

• homologous structures

• fossil record

Which species' DNA is most similar to the DNA of the toothed whale? 

• Hippopotamus 
• Baleen Whale
• Grazing Mammals
• Camels

Mutations are important because they produce:

• death of the organism in which they develop.

• new traits that help natural selection occur.

• benefits for the individual, not for the population.

• Hardey-Weinberg equilibrium within a population.

_______ is the formation of a new species.

• Mutation

• Speciation

• Population

• Extinction

This makes an organism more suited to its environment

• species

• lifespan

• adaptation

• mutation

What are the most studied animals in the galapagos?

• Finches
• Tortoises
• Turtles
• Lizards

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.

Mutations are a change in what?

• DNA

• tRNA

• protein

• rRNA

Natural selection explains HOW organisms change over time. What is the process in which populations are changed over time?

• Digestion

• Elimination

• Evolution

• Adaptation